Biography

Olena Horetska (22 January 1973, the village of Datta, Sovhavan district, Khabarovsk region);

2010 – PhD in Psychology;

2012 – Associate Professor.

1990–1994 – studied at the Faculty of Preschool Education of P.D. Osypenko State Teachers’ Training Institute of Berdiansk, from which she graduated with honours with a degree in Pedagogy and Preschool Psychology;

1994 – started working at P.D. Osypenko State Teachers’ Training Institute of Berdiansk (now – university);

1999 – did a postgraduate qualification in Psychology;

2009 – defended her PhD thesis Psychological Conditions of Optimization of Communication between Parents and Preschool–Age Children (thesis adviser – PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor S.O. Ladyvir);

2011 – started working as the head of the Psychology Department;

2012 – was conferred an academic title of an Associate Professor.

Areas of scientific interest: psychology of advanced age people and family psychology