A historical and retrospective analysis of foreign and Russian studies of school bullying from the end of the 20th century to 2019 is presented in the article. The purpose of the analysis is to assess the influence of the views of researchers on the formation of a modern understanding of this phenomenon, its gender and age, personality and status-role characteristics as predictors, as well as the main targets of preventive work.

The article describes the key social and psychological factors which influence on mental health applicants and junior students. Also the authors state the huge role of the family in the formation of motivational and moral-value attitudes of applicants, their post-school behavioral orientation.

The article describes the main problems of socialization of children with disabilities, the peculiarities and conditions of the socialization process of children with disabilities, especially studied the development of children with health problems and means of their successful socialization. This article also covers questions about the psychological characteristics of children with disabilities. The features of the personality that affect their social formation are considered. The review and analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature revealed a number of main reasons associated with the influence of a large number of external and internal factors on the developing personality.

The article discusses the possibility of using automated psychodiagnostic educational cases, technology of these cases, structure of such an educational case, specificity of automation, perspectivity of the approach. As an example a computer program of automated educational cases worked out by authors is presented. The technologies of automated educational cases can be used in many educational spheres, especially in socially oriented sciences.

In the article, professionally-oriented volunteer activity is considered as a factor contributing to the formation of personal qualities of future pediatricians. Based on the results of a sociological survey of volunteer students of the pediatricians to children detachment of Kursk State Medical University, the main aspects of the formation of general cultural competencies of an individual were identified.

This article reveals certain features in the vectors of professional orientation and development of students of the International Medical Institute of Kursk State Medical University. Certain characteristics are described that affect the professional orientation of foreign students of a medical university. A brief overview of the techniques required to describe the psychological makeup of a modern medical specialist is provided. The role and contribution of cultural characteristics, emotional and evaluative personality components, on the basis of which the professional choice of a young specialist is formed, is evaluated. The determination of the choice of their own profession among students of the Faculty of Medicine takes place throughout the entire period of study, in the process of acquiring more and more extensive knowledge in specific branches of medicine. The article examines the socio-cultural aspects of adaptation of foreign students, within the framework and conditions of teaching medical disciplines using an intermediary language. The data obtained can be used to determine the vectors, individualize the process of training foreign students of a medical university, with the aim of a more conscious professional choice.

The article is devoted to the biography of teachers of the Kursk State Medical Institute (KGMI). They worked at the Department of Histology, Embryology, Cytology before the Great Patriotic War and after it. All of them took part in the Great Patriotic War. They contributed to the development of the department. These scientists stood at the origins of the formation and post-war restoration of Kursk State Medical University.

This article examines the motivation of students to volunteer in the field of health care, aimed at developing a culture of nutrition. Based on the results of a sociological study of student volunteers of the Hercules project of Kursk State Medical University, key motivations for this volunteer activity were identified.