Natural Science and Research Training of Future Psychologists for Health-Promoting Activities
Natural Science and Research Training of Future Psychologists for Health-Promoting Activities

Summary/Abstract: The younger generation needs special attention when it comes to the leading role of the psychological education system, which, together with the achievement of educational goals, fulfils the necessary health-promoting and health-saving mission. The research aims to identify and theoretically justify the pedagogical conditions for training future psychologists for health-promoting activities and experimentally verify them. The pedagogical conditions for training future psychologists for health-promoting activities include specifying the content; applying innovative psychological technologies; developing creative potential. Fetiskin’s self-assessment of professional-pedagogical motivation, relevant tests, appropriate cards and methods (ones for identifying the level of empathic abilities (Boiko); ones for identifying the level of self-development and professional-pedagogical activities (Berezhnova)) were used for the evaluation. Both control (77 individuals) and experimental (83 individuals) groups were formed to verify the effectiveness of the identified and theoretically justified pedagogical. The results of the pedagogical experiment prove the effectiveness of the revealed and theoretically justified pedagogical conditions for training future psychologists for health-promoting activities. A high level of future psychologists’ readiness for health-promoting activities is characterized by a strong positive motivation to conduct health-promoting activities, their desire and stable readiness to work in the pedagogical sphere, adequate awareness of their need to apply their knowledge and skills to conduct health-promoting activities for pupils.

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