NARRATIVE COMPETENCE AS THE COMPONENT OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF FUTURE PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGISTS

Abstract

The paper analyzes the problem of narrative competence of practical psychology as a major component of his professional competence. Professional psychologists` competence is shown here as a complex psychological derivation which provides the performance of their professional activities and includes a system of action-role (knowledge, proficiency and skills) and personal (professionally important qualities) characteristics, the most prominent of which is the narrative competence. Narrative competence involves the formation of narrative identity as a structural framework and the presence of «a set of" basic narratives that have a socio-cultural nature, the skills of deploying narrative structure in a coherent narrative or story. The focus of psychological help on work with the needs of customers that are based on the narrative, as the history of the human`s life who asked for help makes the study of narrative competence very important, that is realized in the process of understanding and self-reflection and reconsideration of an active subject of information about the world and themselves in it. The narrative competence is revealed as a component of professional competence of a practical psychologist and by means of understanding their own experience and their own personality, which is reflected in the ability to see behind the story of the individual, during providing psychological help her personal narrative. Consistent self-concept, reflexivity, dialogic orientation in communication, management of feelings and emotions of others (the component of emotional intelligence), sensitivity - rationality (the component of communicative competence) is concluded to be complementary to the qualities of a practical psychologist, which presence should cause the implementation of personal customer`s growth during the individual and group work