Kalmykov H. Psychology of the development of professional speech activity of future psychologists

The dissertation reveals the relationships between the phenomena of activity and communication, outlined the theoretical prerequisites for the development of the theory of activity and its implementation in modern world science; trends in the development of psychological theory of activity and psycholinguistics in connection with the professional speech activity of the individual are clarified; the relationship between speaking and speech communication in the context of the professional activity of its subject is established. Discursive influence is presented as a way of realization of professional-speech activity, its analysis as psychologically independent activity of speech communication is carried out, the essence of speech influence - a specialized form of professional activity is revealed. The concept of “psychological discourse” as one of the types of discourse in the structure of professional speech activity is presented, the place of discursive influence in the act of professional speech activity of a psychotherapist (consultant) is determined. In the concept of research the psychology of development of the professional speech activities of future psychologists are determined the methodological principles of its study and modeling, theoretical foundations of empirical research - in particular, is revealed the essence of the author’s idea for the diagnosis of activity and competence components of the professional speech and is presented the conceptual foundations of the ways to reveal the mechanisms and patterns of professional speech. According to the concept developed by us the purpose, tasks, theoretical bases are formulated and the units of the analysis of professional speech activity of future psychologists are presented, the choice of criteria and indicators of its diagnostics is proved, the psychodiagnostic tools for revealing a condition and levels of professional speech activity formation in bachelors-psychologists who entered master’s program are presented.. The results of studying their professional speech are interpreted; the peculiarities of psycholinguistic methods of research the discursive practices of psychotherapists (consultants) are highlighted. With this in mind, the psycho-linguistic-pedagogical system developed by the author for the development of professional speech activity of future psychologists is presented - in particular, its psycholinguistic-didactic principles, program and technology of development and verbal psychotechniques of the discursive competence formation. Key words: professional speech activity, discursive competence, future psychologist, development of speech activity communication.