About the association

Founder

Leonid Fokovych Burlachuk (1947–2022) — founder and first President of VPA; Doctor of Psychology, full member of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, head of the Department of Psychodiagnostics and Clinical Psychology and dean of the Faculty of Psychology of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Author of the textbook “Psychodiagnostics” and the “Dictionary of Psychodiagnostics”, on which generations of psychologists in Ukraine were trained. Read more →

Presidium

• Yurii Proskura (Юрій Проскура) — President since 20 May 2026
• Oleg Burlachuk (Олег Бурлачук) — member of the Presidium
• Viktoriia Vynohradova (Вікторія Виноградова) — member of the Presidium
• Yevheniia Cherneha (Євгенія Чернега) — member of the Presidium

Elected by the VPA Conference, minutes No. 1/2026 of 21 May 2026. VPA has 31 full members.

Our goals

• to support the development of Ukrainian psychological tests and provide psychologists with high-quality instruments;
• to protect the copyright of test authors and publishers;
• to develop standards and ethical norms for the use of psychological tests;
• to improve the qualifications of psychologists in psychological assessment;
• to stop the spread of invalid and non-standardized methods.

International relations

VPA is an affiliate member of the International Test Commission (ITC): the association applied in November 2013 and received its membership certificate (No. A0134) in 2014. VPA has translated the main ITC guidelines on test use into Ukrainian and adapted the EFPA test review model and the EFPA standards for test user qualifications.

In 2017 VPA co-founded the National Psychological Association of Ukraine (NPA), the umbrella organization that represents Ukraine in the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations (EFPA). Professor Burlachuk was the first President of NPA (2017–2020). VPA members are also members of NPA.

Milestones

• 2013 — founders’ meeting (17 June); application to the International Test Commission.
• 2013–2014 — VPA experts in multidisciplinary working groups of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine preparing clinical guidelines and protocols on autism, schizophrenia and recurrent depressive disorder.
• 2014 — Test Committee established; voluntary certification of test methods, test providers and test users; open registry of certified specialists.
• 2014–2015 — according to VPA reports, a team of 75 certified specialists assessed more than 38,000 candidates for the new National Patrol Police of Ukraine.
• 2016, 2018 — first (16–17 September 2016) and second (12 October 2018) VPA conferences; the 2016 resolution proposed a roadmap towards an umbrella National Psychological Association.
• 2026 — new Presidium; relaunch of the website with the interactive textbook, the dictionary, the registry and certification for online courses.

Governing bodies

The Conference of members is the highest governing body (at least once every three years): it adopts the Statute and elects the President, the Presidium and the Supervisory Board. The Presidium, chaired by the President, manages the association between conferences, admits members and sets membership fees. The President represents VPA. The Supervisory Board audits the association’s activities. The Test Committee is responsible for voluntary certification of test providers, training programs and test methods.