PREPARATION OF FUTURE PSYCHOLOGISTS FOR THE PREVENTION OF CYBERBULLYING IN ONLINE COMMUNICATION OF ADOLESCENTS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the challenges of modern online communication of people, which in recent years has spread around the world. The modern Internet has become a wide, integrating environment, full of useful and interesting things and at the same time rich in irritation, aggression, persecution. Both the positive and negative aspects of the network are constantly evolving, adding to the number of online dangers. One such threat is cyberbullying, which often takes place on the platforms of various social networks, is a real danger to the social and mental comfort of people, especially adolescents, who are often unable to distinguish between virtual and real features of communication. One of the effective means of preventing such threats is the acquisition by future psychologists of knowledge about the types of cyberbullying, its essence, the specification of the time spent by adolescents in a virtual environment, the risks of computer addiction, and so on. Emphasis is placed on mastering by future specialists domestic and foreign methods of recognizing various phenomena of cyberbullying, working with individual psychological factors, especially adolescents, preventing manifestations of aggression, cruelty, emotional imbalance in children’s communication in networks. The article, based on foreign and domestic scientific sources and research methods, identifies and describes the factors influencing future psychologists to prevent and alleviate the effects of cyberbullying in online communication of adolescents, recognizing the phenomena of cyber aggression, increasing resilience, educating emotional intelligence and communicative intelligence. This will provide professionals with a significant component of their competence.