Sedrak A. Sedrakyan

In 2015 on the 40th anniversary of his pedagogical activity he was awarded the gold medal of a humanist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Fridtjof Nansen.

In 2005 he was awarded a gold medal after A. Bakunts.

From 1999-2002 he actively participated, as a psychologist-psychoanalyst, in the activities of the “Green House”of Children's Early Socialization Centerfounded by the French psychoanalytic organization.

In 1995 he was granted the title of full professor. In 2002 he completed the doctorate program at YSU, defended his doctoral dissertation and received a doctoral degree in Psychological Sciences.

In 1990 he completed a training course in Family and Group Psychotherapy in California, US.

In 1990 he was elected as a member of the Council of International Psychologists. In 1996 he was appointed as a member of the Association of French Psychoanalysts and in 1997 as a member of Psychological Association of Canada.

From 1988-1993 he ran the “Center of Psychological Service” organized by Armenian Relief Society of Gyumri (aimed at helping people who had suffered from the earthquake in Spitak); throughout those years on his initiative nearly 60 psychologists and psychiatrists came to Armenia from the US, Canada, France, Russia, Georgia. He coordinated their professional work in the disaster zone.

From 1983–1990 he was Deputy Dean of the YSU Faculty of Philosophy, Sociology and Psychology. In 1991 he founded and became the Rector of the University of Practical Psychology and Sociology “Urartu”, at the same time chairing the University Scientific Council. In 1999 founded and ran the “Association of Practical Psychologists of Armenia”.

He has carried out various public activities. From 1977-1984 he was the Chairman of the Armenian branch of Young Psychologists of the organization of USSR Psychologists. From 1980-1983 he was the president of the trade union of YSU philological faculty and was a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Philology of YSU. In 1983 he became an Academic Council member and scientific secretary of the faculty of Philosophy, Sociology and Psychology of YSU. From 1978-1980 he headed a student construction team in Armenia, later in 1979 in Hungary. In 1984 he led the delegation of Armenian young lecturers in Tunisia.

From 1974–1975 he was the head of the editorial-publishing, later sociological researches department of scientific methodical center of Armenian Soviet Socialists Republic Ministry of Culture. From 1976–1979 he worked as an assistant at YSU. In 1979 he became a lecturer and assistant professor.

He was born on May 10, 1950 in Berkarat, Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. In 1967 he finished secondary school at Alaverdi Nalbandyan. From 1969–1974 he studied in the faculty of Philosophy, Sociology and Psychology of Yerevan State University (YSU). In 1979 he completed postgraduate studies at YSU. In 1981 he graduated from the Institute of Pedagogical Psychology of USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1987 he defended his thesis and was granted PhD in Psychological Sciences.