FORMATION OF SOCIAL SKILLS OF FUTURE SOCIAL WORKERS AS A SUBJECT OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of forming social skills of future social workers in the process of professional training of higher education institutions of Ukraine. The purpose of the article is to highlight the results of the generalization of the experience of forming social skills of future social workers as a subject of scientific research. Achieving the goal of the article made it possible to use general scientific methods: analysis, synthesis, concretization, generalization to highlight and characterize the features of the formation of social skills of future social workers in the educational process of a modern institution of higher education. The scientific reflections of domestic researchers on the investigated problem are analyzed. Based on the theoretical analysis of dissertations of domestic researchers, it was established that the formation of social skills of future social workers was considered cursorily; there is a lack of research both at the level of scientific substantiation of the process of developing social skills and at the level of professional practical training of future social workers. The main components of the social skills of future social workers have been identified: empathy, social openness, the ability to effectively perform professional duties in difficult conditions, stress resistance, creativity, the ability to quickly and clearly formulate one's own opinion, argue and defend it, take the initiative and take responsibility. Ability to adapt to rapidly changing conditions, maintain professional and personal communication, work in a team. The expediency of emphasizing in educational programs of professional training of future social workers on purposeful formation of social skills based on systematic theoretical modeling is indicated.