The Department of Sociology and Psychology of the Educational and Research Institute No. 5 traces its history back to 1997, when Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs began training students of psychologists and sociologists. Over the twenty-year history, the teachers of the department have trained and graduated more than 900 specialists: bachelors, specialists and masters.

The modern Department of Sociology and Psychology of the Educational and Research Institute No. 5 was founded in May 2013 on the basis of two departments of the Institute of Law and Mass Communications - the Department of General and Practical Psychology and the Department of Sociology and Mass Communications. The Department provides the educational process in the specialty 053 "Psychology" of the first and second levels of education and is a graduation department for bachelors and masters of the specified specialty. The scientific and pedagogical staff of the Department conduct educational, methodological, scientific and research activities in 77 academic disciplines. The Department employs 6 Doctors and 13 Candidates of Sciences.

The Department has a specialized Academic Council D 64.700.04 with the right to accept for consideration and conduct defense of dissertations for the degree of Doctor (Candidate) of Sciences in the specialty 19.00.06 "Legal Psychology" (psychological sciences, legal sciences). Professors, associate professors and postgraduate students of the department conduct theoretical and empirical research within the scope of the scientific school of Professor O.V. Zemlianska. Professors of the Department of Sociology and Psychology provide scientific supervision of candidate and doctoral dissertations in the field of legal psychology and pedagogy.

In the field of scientific interests of the Department:

• issues of interaction between psychology and law from the perspective of such disciplines as legal, social, pedagogical, age psychology, criminology, sociology, linguistics, etc.;
• current psychological problems of crime and offense prevention;
• problems of psychological rehabilitation of combatants;
• current psychological, pedagogical and ethical aspects of improving law enforcement activities in a broad socio-cultural context;
• increasing the effectiveness of psychological technologies in legal practice;
• psychology of the personality of a police officer;
• problems of re-adaptation of offenders;
• illegal behavior of minors: current psychological problems;
• psychological aspects of solving and investigating crimes;
• psychological aspects of conducting psycho-physiological studies using polygraphic devices.

The Department of Sociology and Psychology takes an active part in the implementation of many social projects and programs, such as:

• the program of psychological rehabilitation of ATO soldiers and their families ("Overcoming: from trauma to resource", etc.);
• the program of psychological rehabilitation and counseling based on the Center for Psychocorrectional and Diagnostic Work of KhNUIA in cooperation with psychologists of this center;
• work with displaced persons from the ATO zone, psychological education among youth and children;
• programs to ensure gender equality of the Council of Europe Strategy and the National Strategy in the field of human rights;
• the campaign "16 Days of Activism against Violence" to eradicate violence against women;
• suicide prevention programs among children, including within the framework of preventing the involvement of minors in the game "Blue Whale";
• "First on the scene" (FirstResponder): effective pre-medical training for persons who were the first to be at the scene of an emergency;
• International research internship program "Innovations in Higher Education: Global Trends and Regional Experience", held at European universities in Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, and others.

Contacts:

Address: L. Landau avenue, 27, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Tel.: (057) 73-98-093

Email: psychology@univd.edu.ua