Psychology
8.053.00.01 Psychology
Qualification awarded: Master of psychology
Entry year: 2021
Mode of study: full
Program duration: 1.5 years
Institute: Institute of Jurisprudence, Psychology and Innovative Education
Number of credits: 90 ECTS credits
Level of qualification according to the National Qualification Framework and the European Qualifications Framework: NQF Level 7 (Second cycle of QF-EHEA / EQF Level 7)
Field(s) of study: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Specific arrangements for recognition of prior learning: The previous level, obtained in another country, requires nostrification, which is held by Lviv Polytechnic. The mechanisms of recognition of non-formal and informal learning are absent.
Qualification requirements and regulations, including graduation requirements: Qualifying Exam
Characteristics of the educational program: Object of study and / or activity: mental phenomena, patterns of their occurrence, functioning and development; behavior, activities, deeds; interaction of people in small and large social groups; psychophysiological processes and mechanisms underlying various forms of mental activity.
Objectives of training: training of specialists capable of solving complex problems and practical in the process of training and professional activity in the field of psychology, involving scientific and project research and / or innovation and characterized by uncertainty of conditions and requirements, and implementation of professional activities taking into account universal values ??and norms of professional ethics of a psychologist.
Theoretical content of the subject area: the concept of psyche, conscious and unconscious, behavior, activity, deed, communication, personality, individuality; concepts and theories that reveal the patterns of origin, development and functioning of the psyche; psychological features of the life path of the individual, the interaction of people in small and large social groups; intergroup interaction, etc.
Methods, techniques and technologies: methods of theoretical and empirical research, valid, standardized psychodiagnostic methods, data analysis methods, technologies of psychological assistance (training, psychotherapeutic, educational, consulting, psychodiagnostic and others depending on specialization).
Tools and equipment: psychological devices, computer equipment, network search and information processing systems; library resources and technologies, including electronic; multimedia equipment; statistical data processing and visualization programs.
Gained competence: 1. The ability to demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of psychology of motivation development, individual’s behavior, activity, education, career, and competitiveness formation;
2. The ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of psychology of social, professional, family and personal life, professional and life burnout, crisis and deformation of the person, to apply skills for their overcoming and prevention;
3. Basic knowledge of personality psychodiagnostics, social groups and social and psychological phenomena, including visual and special personality psychodiagnostics;
4. The ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of psychocorrection of individual’s behavior and activity, psychotherapy, psychiatric rehabilitation, mental health and mental development;
5. Basic knowledge and understanding of content, forms, methods and technologies of psychological influence on social objects, the ability to apply them so that to accomplish different goals;
6. Basic knowledge and understanding of the content, methods and techniques of psychological counseling and psychotherapy of different subjects of a life.
1. The ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of psychological training algorithm in the interests of solving the psychological problems of individuals and social groups, including family;
2. The ability to demonstrate knowledge of theoretical, methodological and practical aspects in conducting scientific research, mathematical methods in psychology during the research practices in psychology of different kinds in the interests of stakeholders;
3. The ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of different approaches, theories and concepts of education and training, peculiarities of the development of learning materials to study the academic discipline and of delivering lectures, seminars, labs and practical educational classes of psychological disciplines;
4. The ability to provide psychological support of individual’s functioning (development, motivation, adaptation, socialization, choice of profession, career, behavior, activity, crisis overcoming etc.).
1. Basic knowledge of social psychology of various groups within society, including family, relationship peculiarities, interaction and communication, and the ability to identify and evaluate their development, social and psychological status and social and psychological climate, to use psychological resources of overcoming and prevention of negative social and psychological phenomena in social environment;
2. The ability to conduct effectively a psychological examination of individual’s behavior, activity and life, social and psychological examination in social, economic, political, spiritual and educational spheres in the interests of stakeholders;
3. The ability to provide an effective psychological aid of the individual in a crisis situation;
4. The ability to communicate, including oral, written and electronic communication, in Ukrainian and in a foreign language (English, German, Italian, French, Spanish);
5. The ability to understand and be responsible for the use of certain psychological methods and technologies.
Programme director: Head of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Psychology, Iryna Ihorivna Sniadanko, Professor, Doctor of Psychology
Occupational profiles of graduates: Teacher of psychological disciplines; organizational psychologist; psychologist in educational institutions; psychologist in out-of-school institutions; psychologist in social institutions; counseling psychologist.
Access to further studies: Obtaining third (educational and scientific / educational and creative) level
Other program features: The educational and professional program is based on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary training of specialists in psychology.
Provides partial teaching of professionally-oriented disciplines in English.