Аннотация:DEVELOPMENT OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL CARE TRAINING
Abstract
Modern society gives a challenge to cope with extremism, terrorism, social instability that needs developing new
psychological helping technologies and educational programs, personal and professional skills and new training techniques
in the field of psychological practice and education. The research was fulfilled at the Extreme Psychology and Psychological
Helping Department of Moscow State University during longitude observations and educational practice. Innovation
techniques of tracking transformations and characteristics of personality work - such as development of care-giving
competence in professional training were tested. Students in professional training based on cultural activity theory of
personality showed significantly higher level of “instrumental care” as a part of practice, then psychology students oriented
on care existentially, more presented in images, values and as a part of life experience than in effectual forms of professional
helping. Application of cultural activity theory of personality in professional training also gives the opportunity to elaborate
traumatic intrusion and avoidance as a result of induced traumatic experience in the course of didactic personal work with
trainees.
Keywords: Care giving phenomenon, helping technologies, professional training, cultural activity theory, instrumental
care, effectual forms of helping