On April 21-23th, 2019, Armenian State Pedagogical University named after Khachatur Abovyan hosted International three-day Conference entitled “Psychological Issues: Characteristics, Principles of its Classification, and Diagnostics “, attended by Head of YSUIB Department of Pedagogy and Psychology, Associate Professor, PhD L. Sargsyan, Assistant, PhD A. Kamalyan , lecturer E. Simonyan, a group of students of that specialty.
The conference started with round-table discussions: the psychologists from the United Kingdom, Russia, Ukraine, Israel and other countries touched upon the essence of the problem of psychology, the problem of personality problems, pathological, socio-economic and other types, the necessity and possibility of classifying psychological problems, models and its types.
Speeches were mainly delivered by practical psychologists, psychotherapists who were interested in discussing the diagnosis of psychological problems, strategies for detecting symptoms and syndromes, and psychological problems.
Dmitry Leontiev, Professor of Moscow State University after M. Lomonosov, Prof. Vladimir D. Mendelevich, Director of Institute for Research of Problems of Mental Health, WHO-expert, Head of Department of Medical and General Psychology of Kazan State Medical University, Doctor of Medical Science, Professor of the University of Bergen D. Kuk, Head of Department of General and Social Psychology of “Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University named after K.D.Ushinsky” V. Mazilov and others addressed welcome words and introduces their opinions.
They highlighted the importance of the conference on the issues of psychological problems and the creation of a classification system, finding a possible solution to the problems of the classification of these problems, considering the experience of the Pedagogical University as a brave step.
The participants agreed that psychological problems exist in all spheres of life, they are very unique, individual. “How to look for a problem? No book says how to determine what is the problem, whether there is a problem or not: we just learn the methods not knowing the answers to these questions …”
As a conclusion on the issue, Samvel Khudoyan, Head of Department of Psychology of Armenian State Pedagogical University named after Kachatur Abovyan, assured that all the efforts would be put on the ideas expressed to classify the psychological problems and find possible solutions.
During three-day conference, participants discussed the current issues of reproduction, its psychological peculiarities, socio-psychological peculiarities of adolescents’ non-formal behavior and other topics.
During the conference, our students acquired new knowledge and skills that they could use during their professional activities.
