FEATURES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL PREPARATION OF FUTURE DEVELOPMENT WORKERS TO PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

The article explores the problem of conceptualization of cognitive-communicative and information-semiotic dimensions of psychological preparation of future social workers for professional activity as a complex psychic formation between components of which there are stable functional dependencies.The article analyzes psychological literature on the problem of the use of special psychological knowledge in the activities of a social worker. The problems of interrelation of application of special psychological knowledge in the activity of social worker, regularities and peculiarities of attraction of the indicated knowledge at different stages of professional activity are analyzed, as well as problems of professional training of social work specialists who can provide psychological and social assistance to different categories of citizens who are staying in difficult life circumstances, which is becoming increasingly urgent in today's society.Thus, the personality of the social worker determines the state of the social sphere of the state, from the vocational training, a broad outlook, the level of culture and civic position which directly depend on the results of social development of society. The main criterion for the assessment of a graduate of a higher education institution is competence, while the determining factor for the success of his professional activity is the formation, integrity of his personality, spiritual wealth, moral and aesthetic image, but it is not enough for the psychological knowledge and understanding of the students sphere. This is what ensures a high level of social activities, their objectivity to specific activities, mental phenomena, states and processes.