The article investigates the systemogenesis of a person’s “I” reflection. The article analyzes the primary profession “mastering” which falls on the period of studying at a higher education institution. Within the educational process young specialist’s outlook is being formed, besides, he masters individual methods and techniques of his professional activity. Therefore, in today’s system of higher education it is necessary to discover and take into consideration personal traits of a Bachelor or a Master with the purpose of their further professional development. The systemogenesis of the phenomenon of a person’s “I” reflection includes: substantive attributes, psychological mechanisms, functions, patterns, dynamics, age and gender differences, structure and typology.

This article provides a comprehensive description of creativity and what it is connected with, as well as of its representation at the level of self-awareness in the form of selfesteem and implicit theories. Personal variables of acceptance/non-acceptance of uncertainty by accomplished writers are also mentioned. There are data obtained to support the theory of forming self-esteem in terms of creativity, based on the feedback connection concerning the results of creative activities, and data on implicit theories of creativity that are construed under the uncertainty of criteria based on intuitive abilities of an individual. The data obtained serve as grounds for speaking about the relative independence of creativity from a professional writer’s personality characteristics. This fact goes to support the supposition that such form of activity engages personality potential to a less degree.

The article focuses on the following: psychodynamics of film characters’ inner life; psychologism as an artistic method; the reality of human consciousness is exposed to illustrate the psychological state of a character; psychologema of the «stream of consciousness» as an artistic and visual manifestation in the art of cinema; the way the «stream of consciousness» enables film directors to show the reality most authentically; the way various film scenes are illustrative of how symbols «exposed» by the unconscious itself in recollections, highlight the transition of the unconscious into consciousness and vice versa, i.e. how the unconscious is materialized on the screen; how, in psychoanalytic films, new editing techniques, and means of expression and artistic tools, discovered by modernistic film directors, facilitate communication of psychologism, become constructive and meaning-making by nature; how the «stream of consciousness» manifests itself in the main characters of indie films utilizing modernism and postmodernism aesthetics and representting different national cinema schools.

Since the time of its origin religion as a system of collective representations about the world structure fulfilled an adaptive function and made certain sense to existence. How much does religious consciousness help or prevent adaptation to modern society? What is the impact of religiosity on the character and personality of a modern young man: to what extent are these influences constructive or destructive? Basing on the great experimental data and on the example of Christian denominations the author gives the answers to these questions.

Article represents the review of foreign and domestic literature in the field of psychology, sociology and the cultural science devoted to questions of social identity and its main cognitive component - a social categorization. In article the main approaches to a phenomenon of a social categorization are considered, the experiment of researches made by domestic and foreign researchers is described, their theoretical and practical importance is analyzed.

The present policy of de-institutionalization is aimed at placing orphans and children left without parental care into families. It is recognized that any child has the right to live and be brought up in a family. There are special schools for parents (where the candidates to become foster parents are taught) which help to understand the psychology of children living in orphanages. But, still, there are problems to solve. One of them is to find a family for adolescents, disabled children, or children who have siblings, since they need special families. Nobody is responsible for the search of families. The technology of social recruitment assumes that a recruiter is a specialist or a volunteer who will fulfill the task of searching a family keeping in mind a particular orphan or a disabled child. The article discloses the system of recruiters’ work which helps to find families for such categories of children and children left without parental care.

The article covers the specific nature of the parental position in a family, bringing up a mentally disabled child. It reflects the main difficulties parents face in the process of upbringing a child with an intellectual defect, and the factors influencing this process. The author identifies and describes seven types of parental attitudes towards special children: from being a partner to being rejected. The author reveals the types of parental position towards special kids, as well as the empirical analysis of the families belonging to this category, reflecting the dependence of parental position from their age, sex marital status and child’s age.

The article deals with urgent problems of psychology of adult education, special features, principles (in particular andragogical), approaches to the organization of adults’ educational activity; presents the notion of an adult, criteria and characteristics of adulthood, the specifics of the adult, as a learner, and adults’ learning capacity, i.e. everything necessary for the organization and conduct of adults’ training. On the example of the organization of educational process in the Institute of Professional Development of Managerial Personnel and Specialists in the Social Protection System the author presents some experience of teaching adults.

The article examines the features of young people's attitudes to the meaning of life as a vital landmark regulating complex and multifaceted processes of self-determination in the period of adolescence. Life orientations of young men and women are treated in the dynamics of the crisis of 17 years, which allow to identify their qualitative transformations at pre-critical, critical and post-critical phases of the crisis. The research results allow to describe the importance of the problem of the meaning life in this period of great responsibility, and to detect the presence of a reference group of persons on this issue. Besides, it enables to identify the key areas of life within which the processes of young men’s self-determination and self-realization are accomplished.

Teaching in the existing conditions is accompanied by fear, anxiety, and other similar emotional experiences. The author reveals the links between different forms of fear and the process of studying, as well as the long term effects of school fear. Fears, rooted in the hearts of the young during the years of systematic studies, continue to fulfill their destructive work, not allowing an adult to learn at the workplace and to be retrained, grow spiritually and professionally. Full-fledged education should include the ability to cope with fears. The system of education needs an overhaul that would prevent artificial implantation of fears into educational process. There is a need in specialized psychotherapeutic assistance to students who cannot cope with their fears alone.

The article provides the results of an empirical research of a person’s innovation potential manifestation in different periods of adulthood. The originality of the work given dwells in the author’s suggestion concerning some considerable differences in the specifics of personalities’ innovativeness at different stages of development. Basing on the results of the empirical research the author gives recommendations on the way the professional education should be performed at each stage of adulthood and for each level of innovativeness development.

The paper presents a psychological assessment of professional reliability of public service personnel. Professional reliability of employees engaged in mentoring and promotion to senior positions, as well as of leaders is presented. Professional experience, motivation and individual psychological characteristics of employees, contributing to enhancing the effectiveness of professional activity are analyzed. The author defines the essence of “building-up” professional personnel reliability. It is stated that it consists in acquiring professional experience, enhanced by motivation for responsibility, success, and a high degree of reference.