Socio-psychological Adaptation to Conditions of Higher Education Institutions by means of Students’ Self-government

This article is devoted to the research of psychological problems of adaptation of first-year students and internally displaced people to the new learning environment, and direct processes of adaptation in the conditions of a higher education institution. The principles, techniques and basic actions of psychological first aid have been described. The stages of the social and psychological adaptation aimed at reducing stress, effectively overcoming the post-traumatic feelings and problems, particularly the initial stage, the stage of patience, the adjusting stage and the stage of total adaptation have been demonstrated. The main forms and methods of the social and psychological adaptation have also been described. A set of measures to provide psychological first aid to all categories of students in order to reduce the initial distress caused by traumatic events has been developed with the aim of the social and psychological adaptation of students of Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University. The necessity of creating a sector of social and psychological services at the University that would directly work at the adaptation of students and IDP has been substantiated.