THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF PREPARATION OF FUTURE SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS TO WORK WITH STUDENTS HAVING FUNCTIONAL HEALTH LIMITATIONS

The article presents the results of a study on the formation of professional competencies of future social workers and psychologists to work with students with functional health limitations. The aim of the study was to analyze the theoretical and methodological approaches in the training of social workers, psychologists and development, justification of organizational and content of training, determining the criteria and indicators of readiness of future social workers and psychologists to work with students with functional health limitations in higher education. The main research methods were to determine a group of theoretical methods (retrospective-comparative, systematization, synthesis, generalization, abstraction, theoretical modeling) and empirical (pedagogical experiment, expert questioning and evaluation, psychological and pedagogical observation, conversation, testing, questionnaires, interviews), as well as methods of mathematical statistics. The essence of the main criteria of readiness of future social workers and psychologists to work with students with functional limitations are following: information-cognitive, technological-procedural, organizational-integration, psychological-personal and readiness indicators. Thus, the indicators of information and cognitive criteria we have identified: the possession of basic knowledge of adaptation, socialization, integration of students with functional health limitations. Indicators of technological and procedural criteria determine: the use of computer information, Internet technology, social pedagogical interactive technologies, and also technologies of creation of barrier-free space of higher educational institutios. Organizational and integration criteria - readiness for professional social activity in the higher educational institutios; volunteer activity; scientific, academic socio-pedagogical mobility of future social workers. Psychological and personal criteria – the formation of emotional stability, positive life orientation and leadership qualities of the future social worker. The obtained data of the formative experiment confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed system of professional and pedagogical training of future social workers and psychologists to work with students with functional health limitations in higher education.