EХPERIENCE IN DEVELOPING GENERAL PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES OF A PSYCHLOGIST IN INDUSTRIAL PRATICE

Abstract

The article presents the experience of developing general professional competencies of a future psychologist at student age, through the educational and professional orientation of industrial practice. In order to support the difficulties of students in industrial practice when implementing psychological support for a client, a methodological basis (road map) for industrial practice has been developed, ensuring that students know and master the stages, psychological conditions and methods of implementing psychological support for the problems of clients of different age groups. The methodological basis of industrial practice, the purpose of which is the development of the technology of psychological support, highlights key problems, genesis, basic recommendations for psychological support at different age stages of the client’s life, in accordance with the characteristics of the social situation of development, leading activity, age-related crises and mental neoplasms. The main goal of the internship program is to teach future psychologists to choose adequate, reliable and valid methods of quantitative and qualitative psychological assessment; providing psychological support; development of a high level of professionalism of the psychologist’s personality, which is characterized by the presence of a hierarchy of professional motivation; the need for constant self-improvement, the ability to design the development of a situation of psychological support for a client, flexibility of professional thinking, conceptual understanding of a professional situation.