This article discusses the issues of training children-orphans and children left without parental care (institutions for children-orphans, orphanages) for independent living. Besides, the authors mention the urgency of the problem, the content and organization of work in such institutions. The article gives characteristic features of the training programs implemented in these institutions; and presents the analysis of the practices of their application. The innovative changes in the institutions for children-orphans are justified. It is stated that they are aimed at the optimization of the activities on the inmates’ preparation for independent life. Recommendations on organizing the training are given.

The article presents the empirical research materials of studying the problem of fear associated with expectancies of women who are planning to re-marry. During the research the cluster and factor methods of analysis were applied. That made possible to divide the women into four groups according to two factors - “fear” and “expectancy”. The authors describe the results of the two variables correlation - “fear” and “expectancy” of re-marrying women with different levels of fear and expectations.

The article is devoted to the study of the way the teachers understand their own readiness to working as a school deputy director. Three kinds of self-assessment are discussed: self-confidence as a leader, readiness to management activity and their own interest in being a manager. It is shown these three types of self-assessments are relatively independent and allow dividing teachers into several groups. The motivational factors of teachers’ readiness for the administrative work are studied.

The article tries to consider the variety of psychological approaches to the phenomenon of conscience. The author notes there is a tendency in psychology to study conscience through the phenomenological approach. The author understands conscience as a part of internal world of a person. Due to it there is a necessity to study the reflex part of a personality, its generalized self-understanding (I-concept). The empirical research performed by the author permits to describe the peculiarity of the I-concept of the respondents with high and low level of conscientiousness, as well as to identify young people’s views on this phenomenon.

The article presents the first Russian experience of institutionalizing Creative Devi-antology as a special scientific and academic discipline. The article emphasizes the fact that Creative Deviantology has acquired its own scientific syntagma, i.e. systematized and logically adjusted system of knowledge received on the basis of various paradigms. Besides, it acquired its own status of a methodologically constituting deviantology (while it exists as their special part). Creative Deviantology stimulates the enrichment of problem-thematic field of humanitarian sciences. For real self-determination of this new area of knowledge (Creative Deviantology has pretensions of being such an area) it is necessary to substantiate the choice of an object and subject of the research, as well as of general and special goals. But, what is more important, it is necessary to substantiate the place of the new deviantological knowledge in psychology and deviantology as a whole.

The author studies value orientations of four groups of adolescents (respondents, who are not involved in sports except physical education classes in school; respondents, involved in sports in addition to school classes, but without achievements in sport; respondents, involved in sports and having a youth level in sport; respondents involved in sports and having an adult level in sport). The author discloses such peculiarities of value orientations of the adolescents, with varying degrees of involvement in sport activities, as: high social status and people management; social activity in order to achieve positive changes in the society; health; search and enjoying the beautiful were uncovered.

The concept “competence” as methodological and methodical base of updating university education is considered in the article. The author presents indications that theoretical preparation of “competence-based reform” of educational system is lagging behind. The psychology of competences is a doctrine of how they are disclosed, what structure they have and in what way they are formed under control. The educational process built according to the revealed and grounded competences could give an impulse to making students’ educational activity more active.

The article is devoted to a scientist’s meditation on the necessity and expediency of introducing a training course as a variant of psychological and pedagogic support to the process of forming a pupil’s meaning of life orientations and conscious approach to his own life perspective. Special attention is paid to senior pupils’ necessity to be supported in the realization of a new period of their lives, as well as in the realization of the idea that a person should become the subject of his maturation. The author stresses the importance of searching and finding the meaning of life by an adolescent, as it is a means of preventing the alcoholization of the society and its narcotic addiction.

The article is devoted to the question of forming graduate students-consulting psychologists’ professional identity. The paper presents the results of the phenomenological and hermeneutical analyses, on the basis of which the author concludes that the graduate students of the Department of Psychological Counseling have unstable and blurred professional identity. The author reveals the emotional, cognitive and behavioral components of students-consulting psychologists’ professional identity. The article raises the issue of graduate students’ high anxiety and their concern over the future. The recommendations for consulting psychologists and teachers working with them are given. They are meant to stimulate more effective development of professional identity.