The training course in the discipline “Fundamentals of psychological counseling, psychocorrection and psychotherapy” (OPKPP) is the main course that provides preparation for the study of special psychotherapeutic disciplines, directions, schools and methods of psychotherapy.

The objective of the course is a systematic review of psychotherapy and consulting as a special scientific and practical field. The course is designed to provide a system of ideas, concepts and categories with the help of which a student can navigate the world of professional psychotherapy.

These are ideas about the place of psychotherapy in modern culture, about the relationship between psychotherapy and psychology; classification of types, models and methods of psychotherapy, characteristics of the structural elements of the psychotherapeutic situation; the primary concept of the methodological specificity of psychotherapeutic thinking.