The IX Interdisciplinary Scientific and Practical Conference with International Participation

Conference Organizer:

Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis

Conference Organizing Committee:

Co-Chairs:

Lev Surat, Rector of the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, Candidate of Sciences (Economics), associate professor

Tatyana Wizel, Professor at the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, Doctor of Sciences (Psychology)

Olga Usanova, Professor at the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, Doctor of Sciences (Psychology)

Chair of the Organizing Committee:

Eleonora Kuleshova, Dean of the Faculty of Correctional Pedagogy and Special Psychology, Head of the Department of Special Needs Education at the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, Candidate of Sciences (Pedagogy), associate professor

The conference is devoted to the discussion of modern clinical, psychological and pedagogical approaches in comprehensive assistance and support for individuals manifesting different dysontogenic development, and their families.

The purpose of the conference is to share the experience of interprofessional interaction between professionals in education, health, social care and protection, as well as parents’ association, who provide practical assistance to children, adolescents and adults with special needs in education and upbringing, intending to improve their living standards, psychological health and social adaptation.

The main focus will be on an interdisciplinary approach to integrating modern domestic and foreign scientific advancements in diagnosis, prevention, correction, and rehabilitation of disorders related to psychophysical development, psychological health, play or learning activities, as well as to communicative, behavioral, linguistic, and speech impairments in people with developmental impairments, and also in the field of intra-family relationships.

We expect to boost professional attention to the further development and improvement of the theory and practice of various branches of Defectology in the field of interprofessional and family care using all the advantages of modern social, psychological, pedagogical and neurosciences.

Conference’ venue and dates

April 21-22, 2027
Moscow, Kutuzovskiy av., 34-14
(Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis)

The conference will be held in a hybrid format (face-to-face and online).

Attendance in the conference is free of charge. Travel, meals and accommodation expenses are on the sending party.

Main Topics of the Conference

1. Diagnostic, prognostic, and corrective aspects of interdisciplinary research and interprofessional comprehensive assistance for children, adolescents, and adults facing psychophysical development issues.
2. Families of children and adolescents with developmental disabilities and the involvement of professionals in educational activities, preventive and psychotherapeutic measures to help parents and teachers.
3. Optimizing the adaptive resources of parents and the psychological health of the family system to improve the quality of life.
4. The implementation of modern scientific achievements, tools and technologies to help children, adolescents and adults effectively.
5. Social programs of assistance for children with developmental disorders and their families, including the organization of volunteer work with problem children and adolescents.
6. Forming the professional competencies of specialists engaged in the training, upbringing and rehabilitation of persons with impaired psychophysical functions, for better solving problems of improving the quality of life and psychological well-being in cases of developmental disorders within professional development programs.

We expect the following participants:

• professionals in the field of correction and rehabilitation of children, adolescents and adults (doctors, psychologists, educators, speech pathologists, speech therapists, social educators, social workers and rehabilitation specialists);
• teachers, students, postgraduates and graduates of educational institutions studying the problems of special psychology, special needs education, speech therapy, methods of psychocorrection and rehabilitation;
• heads and methodologists of general and supplementary education organizations;
• representatives of agencies providing organizational assistance to children, adolescents and adults (education, healthcare and social protection).

Publications and Materials

All participants will receive an attendance / speaker certificate.
Participants interested in obtaining a certificate of advanced training are required to participate in all days of the conference (subject to the submission of the documents listed below).

Procedure for Submitting Documents to Obtain a Continuing Education Certificate:

1. Register in your personal account using the following link: https://priem.instudy.online/
2. Complete your profile by uploading the following documents:
   • - Passport (the page with your photo and the page with your residency registration);
   • - Diploma of Higher Education (all pages along with the Diploma supplement/transcript);
   • - Certificate of Name Change (if applicable);
   • - A 3x4 cm photo.
3. In the "Application" tab, select the created profile and the training program: "An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Habilitation and Rehabilitation of People with Disabilities". Then, select the mode of study: part-time and distance learning using e-learning and distance learning technologies.
4. Click "Submit". After your personal account has been reviewed, an offer agreement will appear in your "Notifications" section (you will also receive an email notification about the readiness of your agreement). The tuition fee is 3,000 rubles.
5. In the "View Document" tab, you can review the offer agreement. Then, click on the "Sign" tab, select "Yes", and click "Sign" again.

Document submission deadline: until 10:00 am Moscow time on April 20, 2027.

We will publish a collection of conference participants’ papers; all articles will be included into the database of the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI), with an ISBN assignment. One can find the publication requirements in the Annex 2.

Procedure for Submitting Materials:

To speak at the conference, do please send an application form (provided in Annex 1) to the Organizing Committee's email address kuleshova@inpsycho.ru up to and including 6 pm of March 18, 2027:

For the article publication, do please send the following materials to the Organizing Committee's email address kuleshova@inpsycho.ru up to and including April 20, 2027:

1. Application form (provided in Annex 1).
2. The text of the article, formatted according to the requirements specified in Annex 2.

We accept the articles in 4-to-6-page count.

Annex 1

APPLICATION FOR CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

Last name, first name, patronymic (full name)
Place of work (study)
Position (specify the department or other unit)
Academic degree and title
Title of the article /report
E-mail
Phone
Do you plan to give a paper?	Yes No
Topic of the paper

Annex 2

ARTICLE DESIGN REQUIREMENTS

Publication structure:

1. The title of the article is centered.
2. The name and the surname of the authors are on the next line, centered.
3. The name of the organization followed by the author's email address presents the next two lines.
4. The text of the article is aligned in width.
5. Bibliographic list.

Technical requirements for the text design:

1. Microsoft Word text editor.
2. A4 format.
3. Margins 2 cm on all sides.
4. The font is Times New Roman font.
5. Font size 14.
6. Line spacing 1.5.
7. Paragraph indentation 1.25 cm.

Example of article design:

8. We expect the references to the sources as follows: in-text reference in parentheses along with the author’s name and the year of publication, separated by the comma: (Petrov, 2006). The list of references is at the end of the article according to the rules of bibliographic description of scientific publications (GOST 7.1-2003). The authors' names are arranged alphabetically. It is important that all references to literary sources presented in the text should have a bibliographic description at the end of the article, and vice versa.
9. We do not allow the footnotes in the text, while the endnotes are permitted. A reference to the grant project, as well as the acknowledgements, should be indicated after the main text in the form of endnotes.
10. Bold, italics, and bold italics are permitted in the text, but not in capital/uppercase letters. Underscores are also not allowed.
11. All graphics and drawings must be legible and executed in black and white.
12. Materials containing spelling and punctuation errors will not be considered.