PRACTICAL TRAINING OF FUTURE PSYCHOLOGISTS: HOW TO ENSURE THE ACQUISITION OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCES

Abstract

Abstract. The purpose of the article is to reveal the scientific and applied issues of organization and content of internship as components of the preparation of students of psychology for professional activities. In the article, internship represented as a component of the educational process, a practice-oriented element of acquiring professional competencies and as an environment for forming a value attitude to future professional activity. The main generalizations are made on the basis of the following methods: analysis of activity products (practice reports), observation of students᾿ work during the implementation of professional functions at the practice base, design of success factors and quality criteria of students᾿ acquisition of professional competencies, analysis of students᾿ inquiries on problematic issues of performance of tasks provided by the content of practice and professional self-determination in view of «immersion» in the profession. The obtained results showed: the content aspect of the internship program is determined by the need to objectify the knowledge component of student training in practical skills to solve problems of professional activity; the logic of stages in the construction of their activities during the testing of psychotechnologies of psychological care must be best consistent with the logic of working out the client᾿s problems and his request, the formulation of tasks allows them to perform at the individual-creative and personal-activity levels. The dependence of the content-process context of the tasks of internship and qualitative indicators of professional identification and adaptation of applicants to the new social role – psychologist is recognized. Among them: professionalization of thinking, personal and value attitude to professional activity, actualization of personal resources of mastering professional competencies, integration of personal and professional qualities, ability to self-reflection, motivation for self-development in the profession.