Social and Psychological Support of the Person during Adaptation in New Socio-Cultural Environment

AbstractThe article addresses the problem of prevention of possible development of asocial, uncooperative behavior during interethnic communication, and negative changes of personality of repatriates during intercultural adaptation. The proposed article analyses the developed program of social and psychological support of repatriated students after primary diagnostics of their degree of adaptation. Secondary diagnostics proved the efficiency of applied psychological methods and technologies, ways of working with repatriates during intercultural adaptation. It was revealed that the process of psychological support of repatriates during intercultural adaptation promoted the formation of adequate self-esteem, higher level of emotional comfort of the immigrant, his confidence in own abilities, activated the need to develop social contacts and building partnerships, reduced the feeling of alienation, and created a feeling of belonging to the new social community