Psychological Protection of Population in Social and Legal Aspects

The article deals with social and socio-psychological preconditions (which refer to the spheres of demographical development, socialization of children and young people, psychological safety of citizens and so on), for the perfection of normative and legal basis of psychological and socio-psychological assistance to the population of Russia on federal and regional levels. The opinions of experts, the international legal practice in this sphere and also the corresponding experience of Moscow and the project of the Federal Law of the Russian Federation «About the psychological assistance to the population of the Russian Federation» are studied. On the basis of the analysis of this problem the analysis of the project of the regional law «About the state system of psychological assistance in Saint-Petersburg», worked out by one of the authors of this article, was presented. Detailed argumentation of the necessity to pass this law in order to improve socio-psychological climate in Saint-Petersburg in correspondence with the conception of the forestalling law creation is presented and also the grounding of the necessity to pass the Federal Law of the Russian Federation about the psychological assistance taking into account the experience of Belorussia is given.

socially-psychological climate, management of social processes, social protection, stability, psychological support, demographic situation, socialization, socially-psychological safety, law of psychological support, the system of psychological support, the standard of psychological support, professional requirements for psychologists, legal basis

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