The article analyzes the achievements of Russian psychologists who study the phenomenon of leadership. We have considered the main areas of research of leadership in modern Russian social psychology. The current trends in the study of leadership have been revealed
The article deals with the unconscious patterns of an
adoptive mother’s behavior in foster families. It
considers unconscious purposes of a mother, causing
certain coping strategies and leading defense
mechanisms of adoptive mothers influencing the
success of family socialization of foster children. It
describes the conflict of the image I mother of the
adopted child and the controversy caused by the
incompatibility of the requirements of the society to
foster mother to be an Ideal Mother, her own model of
a Good mother and the opinion of the society about the
adoptive mother as inherently Bad. The requirements
of the society to the mother, including those to the
foster one, the image of the mother of Slavic culture,
the unconscious creation by the woman of the image of
a good mother and a bad one by the Mother archetype
that lead to unconscious desire to preserve the integrity
of the personality through switching on psychological
defense mechanisms are analyzed. Different styles of
interaction and the psychological types of mothers that
serve as the basis for the formation of neuroses. The
empirical study of a woman’s self-assessment as a
mothers is described through the modified technique of
S. Budassi; the way of behavior in stressful situations -
through projective techniques "Man in the Rain";
psychological defense mechanism – by the procedure
of R. Plutchik "Diagnosis of typologies of
psychological defense." It describes the results of
techniques of a group of women with problematic selfassessment
of themselves as the mother in a situation
of emotional stability and their response characteristics
in stressful situations. The author analyzes the major
psychological defense mechanisms of adoptive
mothers, their possible reactions in the process of
upbringing adopted children. A typology of behavioral
reactions of mothers caused by their existing
psychological characteristics is proposed
In this article, based on the works of Russian scientists, the directions of psychological support of military servicemen with professional orientation are described and justified. The concept of serviceman's professional orientation is given as a generalized evaluation of specialist's skills to effectively realize their creative potential in the field of professional activity, which is based on the results of their total functional responsibilities at their current and previous positions. The factors affecting the level of professional development of the military servicemen's professional orientation are identified. The authors show that the traditional structure of military pedagogical process does not meet modern requirements of military-pedagogical work arrangement, because they do not relate to the matters of solving personal problems. In the article we have shown and reasoned that when psychological and educational assistance is incorporated into the traditional structure of military pedagogical process it helps to activate the specialist's inner potential to solve his personal problems caused by the conditions and requirements of military service. Psycho-pedagogical assistance is seen as a correcting component of the military pedagogical process, the main function of which is individually to correct specialists' personality characteristics causing problems to their life, which is relevant at the present stage of the development of military servicemen professional orientation