Lapina M. The psychological features of the formation of future social workers’ professional qualities of the personality

Object –professional development of a future social worker’s personality; objective – to determine peculiarities of development and means of formation of professional qualities of future social worker’s personality; methods – theoretical (analysis, synthesis, comparison, systematization, generalization), empirical (psycho-pedagogical experiment), mathematic and statistical data processing; novelty – firstly determined that in conditions of the traditional professional training in the current self-image of a social work professional there is by-degree increase in severity of personality professional qualities which stipulate directly aggressive, distrustfully skeptical, dependently obedient types of interpersonal interaction, and decrease in severity of personality professional qualities peculiar for submissively modest, cooperatively conventional and responsibly generous types of interpersonal interactions; extended notion of: personally professional competence of future social workers by means of determination of the optimal and problematic options of its development, professional qualities development of future social workers’ personality by revelation of dynamics in terms of tolerance and non-productive reflection forms during professional training, self-image of a social work professional by means of determination of its factor structure at different professional training stages; further development of means of research of professional qualities development of future specialists by comparison of their current professional self-image with an ideal generalized image of the experienced workers’ professional of the same specialty, opportunities for psychological follow-up of future social workers’ professional training by means of creation of psycho-pedagogical follow-up program aimed to their personality professional qualities development; results – the diagnostic complex and developed and field-proven program of psycho-pedagogical follow-up of professional qualities development of future social workers’ personality presented in the paper work may be applied in practical work of psychological service and in educational process of HEI; field – psychology.