Vyacheslav Simonov
Rector of the Voronezh Institute of Psychology
Head of the program of psychological rehabilitation for drug addicts in the Russian Federation in the Voronezh region
Teacher-psychologist in the secondary school №12, Voronezh
Head of the training and development Depertment In the computer company «RET»
Psychology Teacher, Consultant Psychologist, Therapist, Business Coach, Organizational Consultant
Education
Voronezh State University 1989-1995
Faculty of Physics
Qualification: physicist, teacher of physics and informatics
Voronezh State University 1996 — 2003
Faculty of Philosophy and Psychology
Qualification: psychologist, teacher of psychology
Voronezh State Pedagogical University 2005 — 2009
Postgraduate studies, the Department of General and Pedagogical Psychology
Topic of thesis: Process and structure of individual psychological counseling
Knowledge of French and English — at the translation level.
Experience in practical psychology — over 25 years
Work experience
1994 — up to the present time — Voronezh Institute of Psychology. Since 2005 — Rector of the Institute.
Author-developer of training programs
- Sales training
- Communication skills training
- Leadership training
- Entrepreneurship training
- Customer Service Skills Training
- Learning motivation formation training
- Teenage training
- Achievement motivation training in sports
Conducts individual psychological consultations on the following problems:
- Personal self-realization
- Family relations
- Emotional-volitional regulation
- Child-parent relationship
- Motivation for educational and professional activities, etc.
Carries out training of practicing psychologists in the following areas: individual psychological counseling, developing group work and group psychotherapy.
Teaches the following disciplines at the Voronezh Institute of Practical Psychology and Business Psychology:
- Fundamentals of General Psychology
- Child and educational psychology
- Intimacy, marriage and family
- Psychology of motivation and emotions (special course)
- Individual psychological counseling (special course)
- Methods for developing group work and group psychotherapy (special course)
- Methods of active social and psychological education (special course)
Participant of the interregional and international conferences on problems of general and educational psychology including:
Empathic approach in the practice of psychological assistance, 15th European Congress of Psychology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2017
Empathic methods in narcological patients’ psychotherapeutic rehabilitation, Interregional Panel Conference: Modern Approaches of Treatment and Rehabilitation in narcology, Tambov, Russia, 2015
Objective registration methods of empathic exchange of emotional states in a process of individual psychological counselling and psychotherapy, Days of Applied Psychology, Nis, Serbia, 2015
Perceiving One’s Own Personal Beauty: Emotional Indicators of the Identification Crisis, 4th Global Conference – Beauty: Exlporing Critical Issues, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2014
Motivational Bijection in the Structure of Motivation, 11th European Congress of Psychology, Oslo, Norway, 2009
Laureate of the All-Russian competition «Psychologist at the blackboard» of the newspaper «School psychologist» of the publishing house «First September» with the work «Melody of my soul — my mood», 1999.
Author of more than 15 scientific works, including the methodological manual «Pedagogy of the Sun», 2001, Voronezh State University, translation and scientific edition of the book of the Canadian professor Roland Vier «Motivation in the educational context», 2009.
Work experience in related fields:
Has an experience as a teacher at Voronezh State Pedagogical University and Moscow Open Social University, Voronezh
1999 — to the present time — Teacher-psychologist in secondary school №12, Voronezh
1995 -2005. Deputy Director for educational work of «Solnechny», «Chernomorets», Anapa, «Krinitsa», Gelendzhik, «Lesnaya gavan», Novorossiysk, «ISKRA» health center, Temryuk district, Krasnodar Territory.
1995 -1998. Director of Omega-Audio LLC
1990 -1992. Director of the Park of Culture and Leisure of the Leninsky District of Voronezh