The article presents the results of the study of crisis situations described by people who have experienced crisis states and coped with them. Based on the descriptions of crisis situations, the types of crisis states, their causes, components and signs will be highlighted.

The second part of the article presents the results of a comprehensive study of the main causes of violence in the family, which violate mutual understanding between its members. The main factors influencing abusive relationships between spouses, parents and children are described. The presented diagnostic results are interpreted taking into account individual and pair counseling of married couples at the stage of divorce.

The article discusses a modern psychodiagnostic test method for assessing the level of psychological and pedagogical competence of a teacher. This technique, developed by S. V. Klimin for the certification of teachers, allows us to identify the level of knowledge, skills and the availability of abilities for pedagogical activity of teachers. The methodology provides an objective assessment of teachers’ qualifications.

The analysis of domestic scientific papers posted on the platform eLIBRARY.RU from 2020 to 2024 is presented as well as foreign scientific publications of the postSoviet space. The formation of the experience of safe behavior of students in the process of learning, upbringing, and development is considered by the authors as a key condition for ensuring pedagogical safety in higher education organizations. The author’s definition of pedagogical safety as a complex system of an organized favorable environment for quality education and development, preservation and strengthening of physical, psychological and social health of subjects of educational relations is given.

The article discusses the possibilities and functions of laughter in overcoming such challenges of modern times as uncertainty, transitivity, complexity. The analysis of psychological, philosophical, and cultural concepts of the nature of the laughter is carried out. Examples of the image of the ambivalent nature of laughter in literature, drama and fine arts are considered.

The article examines the principle of social responsibility in the context of the position of an educational institution in relation to the problem of family conflicts. Starting from the position of D. A. Novikov on the general principles of the effective management of educational systems, the analysis of the principle of formation of social responsibility is made. The presentation of the problem is given in the context of a comparative analysis of the goals of the Central state programs for the development of education on 2013–2020 and 2018–2025 years.

The article deals with the dynamics of existential-value meanings under the influence of the military situation in the world picture of the elderly population. The theoretical model of value orientations study by M. Rokich (Milton Rokeach), “System of life meanings” by V. Y. Kotlyakov, additions and comments of respondents themselves were the methodological basis and method of the study. The peculiarity of the study is also the fact that the system of value meanings of this category of people is a fairly well-established basic factor of personal meanings, but getting into a situation with any extreme conditions for life, a person involuntarily becomes a witness or participant in certain life circumstances, which he did not encounter in the usual peacetime. This involves a certain rethinking of the basic components of a person’s world picture, the analysis of which this study reveals.

The “Chatbot for diagnostics of communicative skills of counteraction to psychological pressure” was developed and tested on a sample of students. The bot imitates the situation of communication in real time and helps to assess the level of development of communicative skills identified in the analysis of the literature as skills of counteracting psychological pressure: the ability to recognize situations of psychological pressure; the ability to verbally express their emotions and desires in a socially acceptable way (“I-speech”, the ability to say “no”); the ability to use different ways of “listening”, depending on the content of the information transmitted by the interlocutor (active, empathic, passive). The method proposed by the authors showed high values of reliabilitystability (retest) and reliability-consistency. The validity of the methodology was confirmed by high discriminability values, as well as by additional methods of validity assessment (formative experiment and sentiment analysis using the TextBlob text library).