EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR GROUP COUNSELING TO REDUCE STUDENTS’ ANXIETY IN A PANDEMIC SITUATION

Abstract

Possibility of developing and implementing a program aimed at reducing students’ anxiety within the framework of educational work at a university is shown. Conditions of a special program of group counseling organized by a teacher for students with high anxiety are theoretically substantiated and used in practice. Statistical verification of the results of the implementation of the conditions shows reliability of differences in anxiety in the group under the influence of group counseling of students. The main psychological and pedagogical conditions that influenced the results are the use of the principles of humanistic pedagogy and psychology for the development of self-acceptance and the organization of solving problems related to the development of tolerance to uncertainty. Significance of students’ self-determination regarding the presence of the personal quality of anxiety is revealed. The work highlights inverse relationship of anxiety and tolerance to uncertainty in students, which became the basis for the development of the program. The research also observes dynamics of students’ anxiety.