PSYCHOLOGICAL RESOURCES FOR COUNTERING VIOLENCE IN THE SOFT SKILLS STRUCTURE OF HUMANITARIAN SPECIALISTS

The objective of the article is to determine the informational and psychological violence (IPV) as a source of negative impact on the results of a specialist's activity and a risk factor for his reputation, life, and health; to assess the degree of protection of the humanitarian from IPV; to justify the feasibility of developing soft skills psychological re-sources using targeted psychological training and socio-psychological training of coping behavior as elective forms of training within the framework of humanitarian education. Applied methods : Analysis of documents that reveal the company's order for humanitarian specialists for the period up to 2030; study of state standards and other regulatory documents and generalization of the current practice of training humanitarians; search in information sources and generalization of the facts of IPV, which make it possible to determine the specifics of tactics and consequences of its use against humanitarians. Results . The possibility to resist IPV with the help of soft skills psychological resources is reasoned; the article summarizes the theoretical and methodological foundations of communication strategies developed in psychology to influence the opponent's mind to change their intentions and actions; identifies patterns of communicative behavior, coping strategies and necessary psychological resources; uses the experience of using socio-psychological pieces of training for the development of communication resources and coping behavior skills; makes proposals for the development of soft skills psychological resources. Conclusion . The article deals with the actual, insufficiently studied, and multidimensional problem of the humanist specialist's vulnerability to IPV. Today, IPV has become a common occurrence, and the humanist specialist increasingly faces it. Countering and protecting against violence is a special type of communication interaction between a specialist in the Humanities and an aggressive interlocutor. It occurs in the conditions of psychological pressure, informational counteraction, hooliganism, threats of violence from the opponent. In the process of communication, it is necessary to convince the opponent to stop violent actions or abandon them. A humanist can successfully solve such problems and maintain their mental health only if they have special super professional skills and develop personal communication resources. It is advisable to train specialists in the Humanities to counter IPV technologies within the framework of special psychological training at social and psychological pieces of training.