Students mental health and multistage prevention programme: The Russian experience

University students meet a lot of psychosocial challenges during education. These problems can affect their mental state, physical health, social activity and quality of life. A psychoprophylactic model of students mental health care in one of the Moscow Universities is based on the programme of medical and psychological support of education from the freshmen to graduate and on the principles of multiprofessional teamwork. The main goal of such multistage programme is to provide an effective psychosocial adjustment of students and to promote their personality growth. Preventive tasks consist of timeous recognition of mental disorders and of the psychological competences improvement.