Antonova N. Psychological principles of the development of preparedness to prospective psychologists' professional activities.

The paper presents the author's view of the nature, structure and forms revealing preparedness to the professional activities, which is regarded as a trinity of psychophysiological characteristics, personal qualities important for the professional work and attitudes. There grounded the structural-typological concept of preparedness according to which the development of psychological readiness to the career activity is uneven: in the result of the heterogeneous and heterochronous development of the constituents of psychophysiological, psychosocial and value-semantic readiness, some of their components can perform the compensatory function which affects the specific character of revealing readiness as an integral formation and is the basis for defining the type of prospective specialists' psychological preparedness. It is established that simultaneous activation of exopsychic and endopsychic mechanisms contribute much to forming readiness to the professional activities of a practicing psychologist. Testing of the offered programme of psychological support for the psychology students' professional preparedness has driven to the conclusion that the development of psychological and preprofessional maturity of prospective specialists should be the main target in the process of forming of practicing psychologists' professional readiness.