PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS OF THE INTERNALITY FORMATION AS A FACTOR OF THE FUTURE PSYCHOLOGISTS’ PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL SELF-DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The article considers the psychological and pedagogical conditions of personal and professional self-improvement of future professionals, including psychology students. Such conditions include technologies of self-education and self-education, specially designed forms, methods and approaches of interactive work, focused on stimulating of motivation and expanding of self-development resources. In the process of professional training of future psychologists, specially designed training sessions are crucial if specific content and methodological requirements for targeted training of personal and professional self-development are taken into account. Usually such training is realized by activating the internal factors of self-improvement process, one of which is internality - a personal property that acquires special significance in the context of the specifics of a psychologist’s professional activity. It is assumed that an effective psychological and pedagogical condition for the formation of internality as a factor of future psychologists’ personal and professional self-development is a specially organized educational activities of students. In this regard, a special training course "Theoretical and methodological foundations of the future psychologists’ internality formation" was designed. The methodological basis of special training course is a personal-acmeological approach and experimentally substantiated data concerning the results and means of applicants’ for higher education personal and professional self-development. The purpose, tasks, psychological and pedagogical conditions of formation of students’ internality by educational materials are formulated. The structure of the special course, the content of classroom and independent work are revealed, the forms of control are offered. The content and methodological features of the special course, which contribute to the formation of internality as a factor of future psychologists’ readiness for personal and professional self-development, and the expected learning outcomes are highlighted.