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Counseling is one of the most popular and promising professions in this country. The article explores the topical problem of enhancing the efficiency of mastering the future professional activity during training and successful application of the acquired knowledge at work. The study includes an analysis of approaches to the study of professionally important qualities of a counselor, and an analysis of different approaches to solving this problem.

The study attempted to examine the association between creativity measured by divergent thinking tests, and self-actualization. The empirical base was 120 students (100 females, 17 to 22 years of age). The following assessment methods were administered: Self-actualization questionnaire (A. V. Lazukin), E. Torrance Test of Creative Thinking, Remote Associates Test (S. Mednick), Purpose-in-Life Orientations Test (D. A. Leontyev), Questionnaire «Empathy» (V. Boyko), and Self-esteem scale (Dembo – Rubinstein).

The article demonstrates mechanisms of empathy of junior students during the lessons of literary reading. The results of the experimental 281 study of level-forming characteristics of empathy are presented according to the literary development of the child-reader, carried out on a sample group of first-graders (N = 24; gymnasium № 1 Saratov) using diagnostic tools: the method of projective type «Yabloko» (Apple) by A. F. Panteleev, the method of diagnostic techniques of literary development M. P. Voyushina (based on the story N. Dubinina «Poslednee yabloko» {The last apple}).

The article presents the results of empirical study, which investigates correlation between empathy level characteristics and teenagers' suicidal behavior. The use of psycho-diagnostic tools (questionnaire for suicidal behavior identification by A. A. Kucher and V. P. Kostukevich, T. N. Razuvaeva's questionnaire on suicidal risk, questionnaire on ability to empathy by A. Mehrabian and N. Epschtein) based on a sample of teenagers (N=100), revealed that the high level of empathy is one of the factors, which leads to suicidal risk decrease.

The article presents theoretical analysis of psychological peculiarities of prosocial behavior and its influence on the cooperation between representatives of different cultures. It views modern approaches to the study of prosocial behavior and ideas concerning its content and functions. The author shows the perspectives of studying prosocial behavior and factors of its determination under conditions of intercultural cooperation (through the example of students).

Представлены результаты эмпирического исследования эмоционально-нравственных факторов социально-психологической адаптации студентов к образовательной среде вуза. Цель исследования, используя метод корреляционного анализа, определить значимые взаимосвязи показателей социально-психологической адаптации и эмпатии по отношению к представителям разных возрастных и социальных групп у студентов первого курса. Применение психодиагностического  инструментария (шкала социально-психологической адаптации К. Роджерса и Р. Даймонда в адаптации Т. В.