On the initiative of the Rector of the university, Professor Volodymyr Onyshchenko and with the aim to provide psychological support, save and strengthen the psychological and social health of youth, National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic” holds a number of thematic psychological webinars, educational projects for the schools of Poltava and Poltava district in May-June 2020. One of these events is the online training “How to Keep the Psychological Balance During the Lockdown” held within the open meeting of the psychological studio “The Way to Success”.
The Dean of the Faculty of Sports, PhD in Pedagogy, Associate Professor Nataliia Beseda greeted the participants of the meeting on behalf of Rector Volodymyr Onyshchenko, wished them fruitful work, constructive solutions to the improvement of coping with stress, and the skills of balanced decision making, which will influence the further self-development.
The moderators of the event were Doctor of Psychology, the Head of the Department of Psychology and Pedagogy of National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic”, Professor Svitlana Yalanska, Associate Professors Nina Atamanchuk, Yurii Horbenko, Lesia Klevaka, and the specialist of the psychological service Viktoriia Datsenko.
Among the participants were more than 50 students of Poltava schools No. 1, No. 3, No. 4, No. 10, No. 14, No. 17; and Poltava district schools, such as Rozsoshentsi Gymnasium, Shcherbani Lyceum, A. S. Makarenko Poltava Regional Lyceum (Kovalivka village).
The academic staff of the Department of Psychology and Pedagogy organized a number of creative exercises to define the students’ emotional condition. Such exercises included meeting exercise “Me and My Mood”, “Happiness In the Hands of Each of Us”, associations exercise “Way to Yourself” and so on.
The students of Poltava schools and the schools of Poltava region took active part in the discussion, shared their opinions, expressed their own feelings and emotions. During the offered exercises, they could improve their overall emotional condition, understand themselves and others better, learn to control their emotions. The most active participants were the eleventh-grade students of Shcherbani Lyceum Anna Malashenko and Yuliia Kondratenko, and the student of Poltava School No. 4 Yevheniia Korzh.
“Such events help form responsibility for one’s own emotional reaction, self-control over behavior and readiness to control one’s emotions in difficult and emotionally stressful life situations; they develop the skills of emotional self-control; renew the emotional balance which is especially important during the lockdown,” Viktoriia Datsenko commented.
The participants of the online training were invited to other university events and meeting of the psychological studio “The Way to Success”.
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