REVIEW in the final qualifying work Isakov Alexander Alexandrovich  on the topic: "The level of stress and coping structure in athletes-rowers" the specialty 030 302 - Clinical Psychology Specialization: clinical psychology crisis and extreme situations  Thesis student Isakov Alexander Alexandrovich affects undoubtedly relevant in the field of sports psychology the problem of high achievement - especially to cope with stress and the specifics of coping behavior in athletes. At the same time, this subject is of interest to clinical psychology, as the level of stress-rowers athletes studied in a situation of extreme stress, and this is the novelty of this work. The results obtained by the author, have both theoretical and practical value for sporting, educational and clinical psychology. Thesis Alexander Isakov includes all formally necessary parts: abstract, introduction, table of contents, theoretical and methodological part, the description of the results of research and discussion, findings, conclusions, list of references (38 sources) and applications. R & D "level of stress and structure of coping behavior in athletes-rowers" is fully consistent with the specialty "Clinical Psychology" and specialization "Psychology of crisis and emergency situations." The content of the theoretical and experimental part of the thesis adequately reflect the chosen theme. Methods and techniques used by the author, materials collection procedures and their mathematical processing, as well as the results and conclusions of the study, in general, correspond to the goals and objectives. In the introduction, the author of the relevance of topics are covered in the work proved quite convincingly demonstrated the existence of the needs of practicing sport and clinical psychologists in the results obtained. In the theoretical part of his graduate studies, the author showed a deep level of understanding of the problem of stress in the sport of high achievement, but also familiarity with current research in sports psychology. The structure of the theoretical chapter is quite logical and meets the goals and objectives of the study. The author is quite mastered the scientific style of presentation: demonstrating consistency and consistency of disclosure topics, literacy use scientific terminology, the appropriateness of references and citations. The wording of the goal, objectives, subject, object, hypotheses, findings are quite correct. In the methodological part of the work of selection and psycho mathematical methods is well founded, a brief description of them. The author chose to study quite well-known and reliable method: 1) Questionnaire "Ways of coping behavior" R. Lazarus, 2) Methodology "Forecast" developed in LVMA them. CM. Kirov 3) The «Perceptual assessment of the type of stress" (Fetiskin NP), 4) Methodology "Coping behavior in stressful situations" (S.Norman, D.F.Endler, D.A.Dzheyms, MI .Parker - adapted version T.A.Kryukovoy). Selection of study participants consisted of 25 male athletes Russian rowers rowing team at the age of 18 to 25 years, which makes it possible to obtain reliable results. In the third chapter, the author gives a description of the results, has been discussing the results. Formulated by the author conclusions reflect the results, they are quite justified and reasoned. Statistical methods for processing the results is quite correct. author's work includes visual aids in the form of tables and graphs showing the main results of the study. Remarks: 1. Description of the sample is very short, I would like more information about the qualifications and achievements of the athletes studied. 2. The presence of the comparative group - for example, individual sports athletes would make the work more interesting. 3. Statistical analysis is mostly descriptive, which somewhat reduces the depth of investigation. 4. References are very contains English-language sources. Nevertheless, the work has a lot of quite interesting results, the study essentially met, the tasks performed. Given the volume and the concrete results of this work, as well as comments, we can recommend highly appreciated.   Reviewer: Dr. med. Sciences. Professor Kalishevich SY _____________(signature) .