Kyrylliuk I. Psychological factors of training of counseling psychologists in therapeutic dialogue technique.

The thesis deals with psychological factors and peculiarities that feature preparation of psychological practitioners for conducting therapeutic dialogues. Revealed was the essence of different approaches to understanding of such notions as contact and dialogue in the process of psychological counseling; analyzed the specificity of dialogical approach and such phenomena discerned within this approach as dialogical position, dialogical intention etc. The concept of psychotherapeutic dialogue is regarded as a complex multifunctional system, which determines the quality of the contact between the counselor and the client, implying trust in their relations. This system is governed by the level of congruence, empathy and reflection characteristic of the psychologist, and depends on his/her communicative competence.