NATALIA SATCHIK

In 1993 she graduated from the faculty of pedagogics and primary education methods of the Brest State Pedagogical Institute. In 1998 she finished a postgraduate course of the Byelorussian State Pedagogical University named after M.Tank with a speciality pedagogical psychology. Since 1999 she works as a senior teacher at the chair of psychology in the Brest State University named after A.S.Pushkin.

Natalia Satchik is the author of several scientific and methodical publications in republican magazines " Psychology ", "Primary school". She is a co-author of several joint monographs, the author of guides and manuals for students and teachers of psychology and pedagogics faculty.

The participated:
- in the international congress " L.S.Vygotsky and Contemporaneity" in Minsk in 1996;
- in the international scientific conferences:
" Actual Problems of Social Psychology of Development " in Minsk in 1998,
" Activity of Practical Psychologists at the Present Stage " in Minsk in 2000,
" Correctional Activity of a Teacher on Narcotic Use Prevention" in Sofia in 2001 etc.

Preservation of psychological and mental health of children is one of the priority orientations of modern psychology. However it is important, that the adults who contact with a child should themselves realize the paramount importance of psychological knowledge and skills and be able to bring up a child to take an interest in the inner world of a person, in its own self, in coevals, adults, in life as a whole.

The mental and emotional state of a child depends in many respects on psychological culture of adults. Due to poor psychological competence of the society, the grown-up people without realizing it, quite often transfer, "impose" to children their commonplace psychological notions of life which not always can be called true, reasonable, productive and effective. The adults themselves require knowledge of how to bring up a child, how to communicate with it, how to help it to study, how to teach it to resolve conflicts with coevals, to cope with negative emotions, experiences, in other words - how to bring up a developed, independent, successful and socially responsible person.

Therefore, THE BASIC PURPOSE OF OUR ACTIVITY IS DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CULTURE IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS.