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Psychology and Law
2025. Vol. 15, no. 3, 206–223
doi:10.17759/psylaw.2025150314
ISSN: 2222-5196 (online)

Discussing the law on psychological assistance: directions and types of activities of a psychologist (Part 2)

 
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Abstract

Context and relevance. This article is the second part of a study devoted to discussing several versions of draft legislation regulating psychological assistance and psychological activities in the Russian Federation (the Law «On the Fundamentals of Regulating Psychological Activities in the Russian Federation»). The authors continue to discuss and reveal the types of activities performed by psychologists in the process of providing psychological assistance. Objective. Discussion and description of additional types of professional activities of psychologists. Methods and materials. The work used methods of conceptual analysis and generalisation, document analysis, and a systematic approach to understanding the professional activities of psychologists. Results. The authors discuss such types of activities as: consultation, dispatching, methodological activities, research activities, organisational and managerial activities, monitoring, mental hygiene, psychological support, conflict resolution, psychological intervision, psychological support, professional selection (recruitment), consulting, and design. Conclusions. Not all of the activities discussed in the article can and should be included in the draft law on psychological assistance or psychological activities, but the authors believe that their consideration and preliminary analysis should be a mandatory process in the development of the draft law.

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Keywords: bill on psychological activity, professional activity of psychologists, types of psychological activity, directions of psychological activity, psychological assistance

Journal rubric: Interdisciplinary Studies

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/psylaw.2025150314

Received 11.06.2025

Revised 14.07.2025

Accepted

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For citation: Bogdanovich, N.V., Delibalt, V.V., Degtyarev, A.V. (2025). Discussing the law on psychological assistance: directions and types of activities of a psychologist (Part 2). Psychology and Law, 15(3), 206–223. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.17759/psylaw.2025150314

© Bogdanovich N.V., Delibalt V.V., Degtyarev A.V., 2025

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Information About the Authors

Natalia V. Bogdanovich, Candidate of Science (Psychology), Docent, Associate Professor, Department of Legal Psychology and Law, Faculty of Legal Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1507-9420, e-mail: bogdanovichnv@mgppu.ru

Varvara V. Delibalt, Associate Professor, Chair of Legal Psychology and Law, Faculty of Legal Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9586-3188, e-mail: delibaltvv@mgppu.ru

Artem V. Degtyarev, Senior Lecturer, Chair of Law Psychology, Department of Legal Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9393-6550, e-mail: degtyarevav@mgppu.ru

Contribution of the authors

Natalia V. Bogdanovich — research ideas; annotation, writing and design of the manuscript; selection of the list of sources.

Varvara V. Delibalt — discussion and correction of the manuscript; description of key words; manuscript design; drawing up the list of sources.

Artem V. Degtyarev — data collection and analysis; translation of the abstract and key words; transliteration design.

All authors participated in the discussion of the results and approved the final text of the manuscript.

Conflict of interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Ethics statement

The article doesn’t contain any materials to be considered by an Ethical committee.

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