competence

The importance of applicants’ personal qualities in selection and training psychologists

The article contains some requirements for the psychologist as an individual and characteristics of the selection process for students to study psychology. There are many requirements for a person to become a psychologist, which include physical condition, mental health, intelligence, etc., but there is no a University that makes any researches to ensure those criteria in students that is educating. Obviously, nothing can be investigated or evaluated completely, but it would be more responsible and ecological to select applicants carefully for specialties that are socially significant.

The problem of training school psychologists at the University

Our research is devoted to the professional competences of psychologists in Ukraine. As it turned out, there is no official standarts for this qualification. Therefore, analyzing the international experience, we disscuss the possibility of professional competences as to school psychologists.