Social and Psychological Training as a Means of Development of Communicative Abilities of Future Specialists in the Social Sphere

Abstract

Social and psychological training as a kind of active training can be used in the training of specialists in the social sphere. It is aimed at increasing of psychological culture of communication which is one of components of the professional activity of social workers and social security specialists (specialties such as 231 «Social work», 232 «Social security»). The author outlines the factors of the efficient conduct of the training work, the basic principles of training sessions’ formations, the general rules of training participants’ behavior. The article substantiates the need to develop the communicative abilities of future social workers at the stage of professional training in a higher education institution (within the framework of studying the discipline «Social and communicative development of personality»), defines the content and methods, offers guidelines for conducting trainings and the topics of training sessions. The analysis of the results of experimental work proves the effectiveness of using social and psychological training as a means of developing the communicative abilities of future specialists in the social sphere, confirms the activity and interest of students in trainings participation.