PRINCIPLES OF DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL WORK IN POST-PERESTROIKA RUSSIA AS THE BASIS FOR DEVELOPING PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES OF UNIVERSITY GRADUATES

Abstract

The article is observing a problem of analyzing the grounds for correlating the developing principles of social policy and professional competencies of future specialists in the field of social work. The relevance of the topic studied in the article is the need to structure the methodological foundations of the interdisciplinary field of modern social policy and social work in the Russian Federation in the post-perestroika period. The problem of research is caused by the need to improve the educational process in the higher education system, which trains bachelors and masters who are able not only to organize social support and social assistance to needy groups of the population, but also to conduct research in this direction. The article substantiates the main ways to solve the problem and offers options for applying the research results.