Psychology of migration as a separate unit in psychology science – Speakers: Larysa Didkovska and Anatolii Didkovskyi
Moving to a new environment is a real challenge for a person. Studies in the field of migration from a psychological scientific point of view are important not only for certain individuals engaged in the migration processes, but also mental health care workers who provide services to migrants coming from different cultures. The psychology of migration is always about the psychic of a person participating in migration. Migration is a complicated cross-national inter-cultural process leading to deep psychic transformation which requires knowledge and skills impossible to be developed by a person in his/her native country. It is important for mental health care workers to understand the structure of the migration process and psychic transformation in cognitive, effective and relational levels after moving to new sociocultural environment. In our lecture we will give an overview of our scientific exploration around the issues of migration published in the manual “Psychology of Migration” as well as our personal exploration of people living and practicing under the bombs in the times of on-going war in Ukraine.