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Children’s Mental Health and Early Intervention

In Russian

Level of education Master

Type of instruction Full-time

Duration 2 years

Programme description

The programme is designed to train psychologists in the field of mental health and early intervention for children and parents. The curriculum includes courses united by a common methodology for conducting research and evidence-based clinical practice in the field of mental health and early intervention for children and parents.

The programme provides students with an opportunity to independently determine their learning path by choosing courses from two block of subjects:

  • Children’s mental health (with a focus on research and clinical approaches, based on the adult attachment theory, psychoanalytic paradigm of developmental psychopathology, study of trauma and stress in children, including biobehavioral research)
  • Counselling psychology (with a focus on training of researchers in the field of early intervention and psychological counselling of children and parents, including groups at risk)

The programme is most appropriate for applicants with a basic psychological, pedagogical, special (defectological) education and graduates of other specialisations interested in the programme.

Main courses
  • Current Issues in Counselling Psychology and Early Intervention
  • Mental Health of Personality
  • Psychological Interaction and Attachment between Mother and Child
  • Methods of Studying Child Mental Health
  • Assessment of Development in Clinical Child Psychology
  • Psychological Counselling of Children and Parents
  • Methods and Forms of Early Intervention
  • Early Intervention Programmes for Children with Developmental Disabilities
  • Problems of Psychological Counselling of Children deprived of parental care and their families
  • Counselling of Clients with Personality Disorders
  • Modern Methods of Psychological Counselling and Psychotherapy
  • Group Psychological Counselling and Psychotherapy
  • Family and Mental Health of Personality
  • Areas and Types of Psychological Counselling
  • Psychological Counselling of Clients of Various Categories
  • Family Therapy Areas
  • Professional Skills of Counselling Children and Parents
  • Professional Skills of Counselling Psychologist
Our advantages
  • The programme is designed to train psychologists in the field of mental health and early intervention for children and parents. The content of the programme covers a range of issues associated with the importance of mental health of individuals for interactions and personal relationships from the early stages of human development in the family. Significant attention of the programme content is paid to specifics of parent-child interactions
  • Teaching staff of the programme took leading part in: elaboration of the Development Concept for Early Intervention for Children at Risk of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders in the Russian Federation (in accordance with the Decree № 1839-р of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 31 August 2016); reorganisation of the work of institutions for orphans and children deprived of parental care (in accordance with the Decree № 481 of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 24 May 2014); in major international and domestic scientific research in the field of mental health and early intervention for children and parents, including the "The impact of early deprivation on the biobehavioral indicators of child development" project (№ 14.Z50.31.0027), that won the mega grant of the Government of the Russian Federation
  • Teaching staff provide clinical services, including work within the framework of the early intervention programme for children and parents, to different categories of clients in healthcare, education, social development and non-profit organisations, develop and implement social projects to help children and families in difficult circumstances
  • Teaching staff of the programme have been trained and continue to improve qualifications in the field of: children’s mental health and development (at the World Association for Infant Mental Health, Society for Research in Child Development); attachment theory (at the Family Relations Institute (USA, Miami), International Association for the Study of Attachment); child psychoanalysis (at the Anna Freud Centre (London), St Petersburg Society of Child Psychoanalysis); psychoanalytic therapy (at the International Psychoanalytical Association); perinatal psychology (at the International Society for Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine), etc
International relations
  • University of Pittsburgh, the USA
  • University of Delaware, the USA
  • University of Minho, Portugal
  • University of Hamburg, Germany
  • Vilnius University, Lithuania
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
  • Aarhus University, Denmark
  • The Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
  • University of Zaragoza, Spain
  • St. Clement of Ohrid University of Sofia, Bulgaria
  • University of Beira Interior, Portugal
  • Vytautas Magnus university, Lithuania
  • University of Portsmouth, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  • University of Edinburgh, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Jagiellonian University, Poland
Practical training and career opportunities
Professions

The programme trains professionals to independently carry out research, teaching, practical activities. After graduation, students of the programme are ready to provide services in the field of mental health and early intervention for children and parents at governmental and non-governmental organisations

  • Psychologist in educational organisation
  • Psychologist in healthcare institution
  • Social welfare psychologist
  • Educational psychologist
Accreditation

The programme is internationally and institutionally accredited by the Direction for Evaluation and Accreditation of the Andalusian Agency of Knowledge (DEVA-AAC), the Certificates dated 3 May 2019.

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The programme descriptions for the 2025/2026 academic year are currently being updated. Information regarding admissions for the 2025/2026 academic year is available on the St Petersburg University Admissions Committee website.

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