Abstract
The article presents the results of the empirical study on future social workers’ professional self-attitudes during their studying at university. The essence of the “future social workers’ professional self-attitudes” phenomenon is presented, which is shown in their experiences regarding to their own professionally important qualities and competences. We determined the positive but insufficient dynamics of the professional self-attitude development at future social workers -“bachelor” degree students of the first-fourth academic years during their professional training at university. There are large statistically significant increase of the number of students with high professional self-attitudes, statistically significant decrease of the number of students with average professional self-attitudes and insignificant decrease of the number of with low professional self-attitudes from the first to the fourth academic year. The obtained results are important for elaboration of effective psychological support for future social workers’ professional “Self-concept” development, in general, and their professional self-attitude, in particular, during their professional training.  
Highlights
The continuous processes in Ukraine aimed at its entrance to the European area and the corresponding socio-political and socio-economic transformations determine the increased need for social services to certain categories of Ukrainian citizens
The obtained results are important for elaboration of effective psychological support for future social workers’ professional “Self-concept” development, in general, and their professional self-attitude, in particular, during their professional training
Apart from this, we identified more early increased professional self-esteem of the second-year students, which was highlighted in our previous scientific publications (Spivak, 2016, 2018)
Summary
The continuous processes in Ukraine aimed at its entrance to the European area and the corresponding socio-political and socio-economic transformations determine the increased need for social services to certain categories of Ukrainian citizens. The state law of Ukraine “On social services” declares that social workers are to carry out psychological, rehabilitative and other activities to improve or restore lives of those people who are needed professional help. The Laws of Ukraine “On Education” and “On Higher Education” emphasize the importance of highly qualified specialists with harmonious professional self -concept. The important task of modern Ukrainian psychological science and practice is to study the components of future social workers’ professional self-concept and to propose the effective psychological support during their professional training
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