scholarly journals Features of Providing Psychological Assistance to Relatives of Patients in an Infectious Hospital when Working with COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 100 (6) ◽  
pp. 4-13
Author(s):  
A.D. Aizenshtein ◽  
D.D. Volovik ◽  
R.A. Abdurakhmanov ◽  
I.A. Kirova ◽  
A.A. Korneeva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional State ◽  
Psychological Support ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Course Of Illness ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Psychological Service ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
The Face ◽  
Psychological Assistance ◽  
Severity Of The Disease

The article summarizes the experience of the psychological service of the “FSMN” of the FMBA of Russia with relatives of patients during the conversion of the center to an infectious hospital for the treatment of a new coronavirus infection. The restriction of communication between family members and a sick relative (visiting specialized medical institutions working with Covid‑19 is prohibited), aswell as with treating doctors working in the “red” zone, necessitated the organization of not only informational, but also psychological support for relatives of patients with Covid‑19. The lack of information in relatives of patients is accompanied by various psychological and behavioral reactions (increased levels of anxiety, fear, aggressive behavior, etc.), and this has determined the key tasks of psychological work with relatives: informing, providing emotional support, and stabilizing the emotional state. Face-to-face and remote work formats were developed to provide psychological support for patients ‘ relatives. Based on our experience, we can say that the emotional state of relatives largely depended on the severity of the disease in their relatives who were being treated. With a mild course of illness, relatives, as a rule, were more in demand for a remote format of psychological assistance, the main purpose of which was to inform. The face-to-face format of work with a psychologist was more popular and showed greater effectiveness for those relatives whose relatives were in a more serious condition, were transferred to the intensive care unit, as well as for relatives of the deceased.

scholarly journals Psychological Assistance to Health Care Workers in the Conditions of Re-Profiling the Federal Hospital to Treat Patients with COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 98 (4) ◽  
pp. 99-108
Author(s):  
M.A. Shurupova ◽  
R.A. Abdurahmanov ◽  
L.I. Esejkina ◽  
T.V. Kutejnikova ◽  
D.A. Popova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
Psychological Support ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Psychological Service ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Psychological Difficulties ◽  
Psychological Assistance

In addition to physical mortality, the COVID-19 pandemic has a broad psychosocial and emotional impact on all population groups. Medical workers in the hospitals are experiencing unprecedented physical and psychological difficulties. Guided by the principles of providing professional psychological assistance to health care workers and based on the analysis of international experience, the “FCBN” of the FMBA of Russia organized several forms of psychological support. The purpose of this study was to investigate the methods and results of psychological support to health care workers during the period of re-profiling hospital for patients with COVID-19. The study sample includes 578 employees of the “FCBN” of the FMBA of Russia, covered during a weekly call; 25 of them participated in "social questionnaire"; 33 people completed the MBI and GAD-7 questionnaires; more than 30 people received personal or distant consultations. The results of questionnaires show that employees reacted to the new conditions adequately. The average values of indicators on the scales "emotional exhaustion" and "depersonalization" for the group fell within the normal range for medical workers in Russia. Investigation of effectiveness of different psychological methods shows that for supporting health care workers in the new condition, the most effective were personal consultations, and to identify the actual problems of work organization and building vertical communication between staff and management – weekly calls and ≪social questionnaire≫. In conclusion, our experience has shown the importance of maintaining the functioning of psychological service to help health care workers in an emergency situation for the health system.

System of automatic analysis of methods for recognizing the emotional state of a person

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.I. Vlasov ◽  
I.T. Larionov ◽  
A.N. Orekhov ◽  
L.V. Tetik
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Hopfield Neural Network ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Automated Recognition ◽  
Active Systems ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
The Face ◽  
Complex Features

The introduction of methods and means of digital transformation of industry and the social sphere poses new challenges. One of these tasks is the management of active systems, in which simple registration and identification of the initiators of actions is not enough, but a deeper assessment of their state, including psychophysical and emotional, is required. The article is devoted to the analysis of methods and means of recognizing the emotional state of a person. Approaches to automated recognition of a person's emotional state based on primary, secondary and more complex features are analyzed. The main focus is on a comprehensive approach to recognition of a person's emotional state based on the analysis of visual and audio channels using neural networks and computer psyche algorithms. The target of the article is a formalization of methods and development of means to recognize a person's emotional state according to complex audiovisual criteria. Analyzed software for recognizing the emotional state of a person: FaceReaderNoldus, EmoDetect, FaceSecurity, Microsoft Oxford Project Emotion Recognition, eMotion Software, MMER_FEASy. Methods used to recognize the emotional state of a person by his face have been investigated, such as: the method of basic components, the Viola-Jones method, template comparison, the Hopfield neural network, the method based on the localization of key points on the face and the method based on texture information. Separately analyzed methods of recognizing the emotional state of a person from his speech. invention proposes a solution for multilevel recognition of emotional state of a person based on using algorithms of neural networks and computer psyche. Software for recognizing the emotional state of a person was analyzed: the developed approach can be used for various digital applications, ranging from the analysis of the psychophysiological and emotional state of a person - an operator (pilot, driver, etc.), to multimedia mobile applications for analyzing the emotional state of an interlocutor. The trend for remote work and self-employment opens up such areas of application of these applications as consulting psychologists, interviewing online, optimizing the human resources of companies and organizations. Prospects for using the latest versions of emotional analyzers are shown.

A psychosocial cancer phone center staffed by professional psychologists as an integral part of the standard process of care: Its utility during the course of illness

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Arnaboldi ◽  
Francesca N. Lupo ◽  
Luigi Santoro ◽  
Luigia Rubio ◽  
Angela Tenore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Phase ◽  
Psychological Support ◽  
Process Of Care ◽  
Delivery Vehicle ◽  
Course Of Illness ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Multiple Indicators ◽  
Education And Awareness ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Professional Psychologists

AbstractObjective:Major cancer centers cannot ignore psychosocial patient needs that have a significant impact on the process of adjustment to cancer and on compliance to treatments. We introduced a new service, the Gigi Ghirotti Psychosocial Cancer Phone Center (GGPCPC), staffed by professional psychologists, for use by our patients and their relatives. This article investigates its feasibility as a support delivery vehicle for patients in their follow-up phase, and also investigates patients' sense of abandonment related to their care setting.Method:A close collaboration was set up between GGPCPC psychologists and European Institute of Oncology (IEO) psychologists. Education and awareness sessions regarding the importance of such a source of psychological support were conducted by IEO psychologists with nurses, secretaries, and receptionists. IEO psychologists input monthly data, recorded on specific paper-tabs by GGPCPC psychologists for each call received by the phone center between March 2007 and March 2009, into a SPSS database.Results:Four hundred and thirty individuals contacted the center mainly to receive psychological support during their treatment phase, when they visited IEO for treatment sessions. Multiple indicators suggest that this telephone support program was feasible and provided support to a broad range of cancer patients. Patients seemed to prefer it to face-to-face psychological support during their treatment-phase.Significance of results:The GGPCPC was demonstrated to be an efficacious support and information delivery vehicle for patients and relatives during the illness course.

scholarly journals FEATURES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS IN THE CONVENTION OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
pp. 365-370
Author(s):  
Diana Romanovska ◽  
Roksolana Mintianska
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
School Psychologists ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Psychological Support ◽  
Psychological Services ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
Psychological Service ◽  
Psychological Assistance

The urgency of the problem is determined by the growing need of participants in the educational process affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 for psychological assistance, and the lack of research that would help school psychologists, social educators to provide quality educational services in distance learning. The purpose of the article is to present the results of research on the psychological support of the educational process in quarantine, to present the experience of the scientific and methodological center of practical psychology and social work of Chernivtsi In-Service Teacher Training Institute, to determine strategies for scientific and methodological support of psychological services in pandemics and distance learning. The article analyzes the quantitative indicators of online activities, the subject of appeals to psychological services by students, parents, teachers during quarantine, Internet resources used in the process of psychological assistance in distance learning. It has been established that quarantine has reduced the productivity of the psychological service of educational institutions, caused restrictions in professional activities. School psychologists fulfilled their professional workload with students only by 18.8%, and social educators − by 9.7%. Many students were not covered by psychological support, socio-pedagogical assistance, and were left «alone» with their problems and difficulties at home. According to the results of the research, the strategies of scientific and methodological support of the activity of psychological service specialists are determined: development of autopsychological competence and self-regulation; development of digital competence; development of tools for professional activity on harmonization of psycho-emotional state, restoration of mental health in victims of the COVID-19 pandemic participants in the educational process.

scholarly journals Emotion regulation in infants using maternal singing and speech

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niusha Ghazban
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Skin Conductance ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Physiological Responses ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Behavioural Responses ◽  
Infant Distress ◽  
The Face

The interaction between a mother and her infant has been described as an intricate ‘dance’ involving coordinated singing and movement (Feldman, 2007). It is widely accepted that infant-directed (ID) speech, characterized as having higher pitch, slower tempo, and exaggerated intonation, is an effective means of communicating with infants and holding their attention (Papousek et al., 1985). Singing is another universally observed caregiving behaviour. Mothers across cultures intuitively use infant-directed (ID) singing to regulate their infants’ emotional state (de l’Etoile, 2006; Nakata & Trehub, 2004). While ID speech and singing appear to be equally successful in regulating infants’ attention (Corbeil, et al., 2013), their effects in modulating infants’ distress are less clear. More precisely, while stress and arousal are intimately connected, there is no research to date that has investigated the efficacy of speech and singing in alleviating infant distress. Using a modified version of the Face-to-Face/Still-Face (FFSF) paradigm (Tronick et al., 1978), the current study is the first to examine 10-month-old infants’ behavioural and physiological responses, via Skin Conductance (SC), to their mother’s singing and speaking. Stress was effectively induced in the still-face episode with infants exhibiting typical “still-face” behaviours and elevated SC responses. The results indicated that in the reunion episode, mother’s singing was more effective in decreasing infant’s physiological arousal, regulating negative affect and promoting infants’ visual attention in comparison to maternal speaking. However, the genre of songs selected (e.g., play song or lullaby) might have been contributed to the positive outcomes of singing in regulating infants’ emotions. Therefore, the second study used the same methodology to examine the effects of maternal play songs and lullabies on infants’ physiological and behavioural responses. The results indicated that maternal play songs were more effective in regulating infants’ stress as well as capturing and maintaining their attention than were soothing lullabies. Taken together, the findings indicate that maternal singing, specifically playful performances, supports infants’ emotions and effectively regulates their stress.

The problem of psychological support for First year University Students: local aspect

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-64
Author(s):  
A.N. Legkonogikh ◽  
◽  
S.B. Smirnova ◽  
N.I. Legkonogikh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Support ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Fall Semester ◽  
Psychological Service ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Psychological Assistance ◽  
New Research ◽  
The University ◽  
First Year University

Presented is developing of the algorithm for psychological support of 1st year students of university, emphasizing the relevance of the problem at all stages of occurrence, development and resolution. The importance of the problem is confirmed by surveys of students, starting from the first year of study and ending with graduation from the university, and the feasibility of having such a service in the university in order to level out conflict situations and various factors that form them, through psychological assistance. The survey of 1st-year students of Rostov University and the generalization of the results obtained directed the vector of research and development of the algorithm of the work of the psychological service of the university, the formation of a competence-based approach to expanding the boundaries of this service among students and faculty with the deep use of information and computer technologies and new research tools, from cases to focus groups. The author's algorithm of psychological support for first-year students was tested among the 1st-year students of the Academy of Psychology and Pedagogy of the Southern Federal University (Rostov-on-Don) in the fall semester of 2020, which was positively reflected in the work of the psychological service of this educational conglomerate at the beginning of the new semester of 2021.

scholarly journals Emotion regulation in infants using maternal singing and speech

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niusha Ghazban
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Skin Conductance ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Physiological Responses ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Behavioural Responses ◽  
Infant Distress ◽  
The Face

The interaction between a mother and her infant has been described as an intricate ‘dance’ involving coordinated singing and movement (Feldman, 2007). It is widely accepted that infant-directed (ID) speech, characterized as having higher pitch, slower tempo, and exaggerated intonation, is an effective means of communicating with infants and holding their attention (Papousek et al., 1985). Singing is another universally observed caregiving behaviour. Mothers across cultures intuitively use infant-directed (ID) singing to regulate their infants’ emotional state (de l’Etoile, 2006; Nakata & Trehub, 2004). While ID speech and singing appear to be equally successful in regulating infants’ attention (Corbeil, et al., 2013), their effects in modulating infants’ distress are less clear. More precisely, while stress and arousal are intimately connected, there is no research to date that has investigated the efficacy of speech and singing in alleviating infant distress. Using a modified version of the Face-to-Face/Still-Face (FFSF) paradigm (Tronick et al., 1978), the current study is the first to examine 10-month-old infants’ behavioural and physiological responses, via Skin Conductance (SC), to their mother’s singing and speaking. Stress was effectively induced in the still-face episode with infants exhibiting typical “still-face” behaviours and elevated SC responses. The results indicated that in the reunion episode, mother’s singing was more effective in decreasing infant’s physiological arousal, regulating negative affect and promoting infants’ visual attention in comparison to maternal speaking. However, the genre of songs selected (e.g., play song or lullaby) might have been contributed to the positive outcomes of singing in regulating infants’ emotions. Therefore, the second study used the same methodology to examine the effects of maternal play songs and lullabies on infants’ physiological and behavioural responses. The results indicated that maternal play songs were more effective in regulating infants’ stress as well as capturing and maintaining their attention than were soothing lullabies. Taken together, the findings indicate that maternal singing, specifically playful performances, supports infants’ emotions and effectively regulates their stress.

Supporting the Use of Rudimentary Vocalizations

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 132-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Zubow ◽  
Richard Hurtig
Keyword(s):  
Rett Syndrome ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
Acoustic Analysis ◽  
Eye Gaze ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Multiple Modalities ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Perceptual Judgments ◽  
The Face

Children with Rett Syndrome (RS) are reported to use multiple modalities to communicate although their intentionality is often questioned (Bartolotta, Zipp, Simpkins, & Glazewski, 2011; Hetzroni & Rubin, 2006; Sigafoos et al., 2000; Sigafoos, Woodyatt, Tuckeer, Roberts-Pennell, & Pittendreigh, 2000). This paper will present results of a study analyzing the unconventional vocalizations of a child with RS. The primary research question addresses the ability of familiar and unfamiliar listeners to interpret unconventional vocalizations as “yes” or “no” responses. This paper will also address the acoustic analysis and perceptual judgments of these vocalizations. Pre-recorded isolated vocalizations of “yes” and “no” were presented to 5 listeners (mother, father, 1 unfamiliar, and 2 familiar clinicians) and the listeners were asked to rate the vocalizations as either “yes” or “no.” The ratings were compared to the original identification made by the child's mother during the face-to-face interaction from which the samples were drawn. Findings of this study suggest, in this case, the child's vocalizations were intentional and could be interpreted by familiar and unfamiliar listeners as either “yes” or “no” without contextual or visual cues. The results suggest that communication partners should be trained to attend to eye-gaze and vocalizations to ensure the child's intended choice is accurately understood.

Digital education: Using electronic resources in psychological support of the educational process

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-61
Author(s):  
Ju. A. Tikhonova
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Psychological Support ◽  
Diagnostic Methods ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Software Products ◽  
School Year ◽  
Psychological Service ◽  
Software Product ◽  
The City

The article discusses the development trends of the modern preschool education system in the aspect of the activity of the teacherpsychologist of the preschool educational organization. The experience of using 1C software products in the practical work of the psychological service of kindergarten 318 of the city of Perm in the aspects of psychological monitoring of children’s readiness to study at school and correctional and developmental work with preschool children is presented. The components of the child’s psychological readiness for school are described. On practical examples, diagnostic methods for determining the level of readiness of children for schooling are analyzed. The data of testing kindergarten pupils at the beginning of the 2019/2020 school year on the parameters allowing to identify urgent problems and determine the direction of the necessary correctional development work are presented. Features of the practical application of the software product 1C:Preschool Psychodiagnostics in the process of psychological support of preparing children for school are considered. Methods are described, the scope of which is aimed not only at the study of personality traits, but also at its development. The possibilities of using games of the 1C:Educational Collection in the correctional and developmental work are disclosed. The description of game collections is given, options for their use are presented.

Antecedent Factors to Recommendation Intention on the Face-to-Face Job Consulting

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-133
Author(s):  
조현 ◽  
Jaeshin Park ◽  
ki-jin jang
Keyword(s):  
Face To Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
Recommendation Intention
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