Psychologist of the Department of Social, Educational and Psychological Work of the State Institution “Kharkiv Reformatory Colony № 43” Senior Lieutenant of the Internal Service Serhii Boiko conducted binary classes for fourth-year psychology students of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs within the discipline “Nonverbal Psychodiagnostics” on the topic of “Visual Psychodiagnostics of Criminal Personality Traits”.
During the meeting, students-psychologists learned how to determine the criminal past of a person by non-verbal signs in the process of psychological observation of a person. The psychologist of the penitentiary service spoke about the criminal subculture, about the peculiarities of non-verbal language in reformatory facilities. On the material of the documentary film about the social adaptation of prisoners ''Born to die'' applicants for higher education learnt how to make psychological portraits of criminals.
The class was extremely useful and amusing; the students expressed their desire to continue to hold such meetings with practitioners.
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