TRAINING FOR FUTURE PSYCHOLOGISTS: DIFFICULTIES AND PROSPECTS

Abstract

The article highlights issues of professional and personal development of future psychologists. The emphasis is placed on the importance of personal development, analysis and understanding of their own life experiences by psychology students. Stimulating the adoption and recognition of personal experience by psychology students in the process of professional training is interpreted as an important component of the training of psychologists and acts as a mechanism for personal and professional growth. The subject of the research is personal and professional development of student psychologists. FSBEI OF PSU named after Sholom Aleichem in Birobidzhan is the experimental base of the research. The study involved 63 students majoring in 03/03/01 Psychology. The researcher uses the method of a questionnaire “Cognitive personality distortions” by A. Freeman, who studies cognitive distortions of the world’s perception of personality, the Toronto alexithymia scale (TAS). The significance of personality-psychological work with students in the process of training psychologists at the university is determined.