PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF FORMATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS' DEONTOLOGICAL READINESS 

 

Candidate of pedagogical science, associated professor Kudysheva A.A., master of psychology Zhunussova A.R.

 

Social work existed in the human community in the form of aid and assistance from time immemorial and based on universal spiritual values. During evolution it changed, moving away from its sources of spirituality, but nevertheless, nowadays "Social work" can be  presented as a charity and skill.

         The charity, as a state of a social workers' soul, is the basis and connecting link between social work and spirituality. Under the spirituality psychologists mean the inner  aspiration to the goodness, the need to give your mental strength to nearest, to do good, by carrying out your mission on this earth.

Therefore, social work has been and remains one of the most difficult, but noble and inspired activities. 

According to Kholostova E.I., whose point of view  we share, not every person can become a social worker. The determining criterion in this process is the system of person's spiritual values. The value  orientations of professional social work in all its varieties, can be reduced as universal values, respect for human honor and dignity, uniqueness of one's personality. [1]

Style of social worker's professional behavior, due to his personal qualities, his value orientations and interests, has a decisive impact on the system of relations which he forms.  It means that, the role of his personal qualities is very important in professional behavior and career choices.

            In the foreign literature there are many studies of professional selfdetermenation.  Among them, the T. Parsons theory, the concept of D Super and others can be pointed out. D. Super, for example,  considers personal professional determination  as a long-life process, which forms under various subjective factors.[2]

            Social work as a profession requires thorough preparation and constant improvement of specialists in this field, which, first of all, means the formation of their spiritual and personal qualities, skills, debt to the socium, prestige and image. These characteristics depend on the social worker's deontological readiness. Deontological readiness is a state of mind of the future specialist in social work, when they understand the necessity to behave according to socium's debt. This is a state of mind when there is a reflection of the objective functions of a social worker in ideas, feelings, beliefs, in the inner motives of professional activities and their realization in practice. Social deontology studies professional ethical norms, principles  of social worker's behavior and activities. This is the science, which studies professional duty, morality, moral consciousness of combined professional group, its ideology. [4] Formation of social worker's deontological - is a required effect on his consciousness in order to improve him as a person and as future professional, which will help to choose the most complete and effective solution of professional problems. Social work as a special form of professional activity, has a specific set of ideals and values ​​formed on the base of the principles and norms of specialists' behavior.

  Let us consider each measure of social worker's deontological readiness.

The first indicator is the "image", it includes not only natural but also specifically tried and tested individual properties, this index is associated with both personal appearance and inner content, i.e. his psychological type. The concept of image is multi-layered , and made up of different components. The first component of social worker's image is social worker's moral reliability . Social worker has to be a "man of honor" even nowadays.

The moral person understands  the need of professional duty  (deontological  readiness), that he must behave according to the criteria verified by human experience. A wicked man is always aspired only by his personal interests and desires.  Society needs moral and reliable social worker, interested in the  spiritual self-improvement.

The second indicator - is the professionalism and competence. Any person who works with people has to be a talented person. This position is reflected in the works of I. Atvater, L.P. Primak [3]. 

Most people do not have the opportunity to show their  talents, most of them all their lives do not follow their callings. The development of society is always prevented by unskilled labor in the industry, management and science. Social work, also requires professionalism and competence. 

            The third indicator is a liberal education of social workers, human values ​​which should form the basis of his views. 

            Summing up, specialists' deontological readiness - is a positive professional state of mind which gives the basis to  his consciousness, after which appears awareness and understanding of professional duty, which goes into the faith, and regulates person's behavior. [4]

            Our education system prepared future social workers in wrong way. Lack of   humanities has a negative impact on person's development. Due to the humanities, the person gets the opportunity to absorb a variety of information. This knowledge is the most important conditions of a social worker behavior. Therefore, professional education of social workers must be based on   formation of identity, the uniqueness of each person on earth.

            Another important component in the formation of social worker's deontological readiness is that  every social  worker should be psycho-technologist. Psychotechnology  is the science about practical use of psychological techniques of managing people. Psytechnology is realizaed in communication and represents a system of interrelated and internally motivated psycho-techniques, which are based on an analysis of communication and personal improvement. [3]

            As a social worker can solve the problem of formation of the person's spiritual needs and first of all self-improvement. Many philosophical and mystical teachings as Socrate's, Krishnamurti, Gurdjiev, Buddhist  emphasize that self-observation and self-knowledge is a necessary step on the way to spiritual development.

Depending on the content of the problem the ways and forms of social work change. The most common are: self confession - is a full internal report in front of yourself and  about yourself. The success of reflection is greater when it is possible to reflect objectively  the reality of our "Mental mirror." To express the "sore" in the words, to speak out directly and ingenuously is always the one of the most effective ways of getting rid of painful thoughts.

Conscious habit formation of self-report will help to eliminate unwanted spontaneous and impulsive behavior, because  there are worked mechanisms of intellectual and moral control, and spiritual purification.

One of the principles of communicative critical and analytical, conscious action on the own personal set ups is  a self-persuasion. This is the core of personal motives, and the basis of the process are the mental operations rationalization of motives, consisting of the rationale of practical benefit of an action.

            The use of various psycho-techniques, which switched from the archaic layers of the past, into the rational mechanisms for managing the internal state, behavior, could helpthe social worker to acquire skills of self-organization of self-control, spiritual cleansing, image formation for a successful professional work.

For a social work the most important nowadays  is a problem of determination of a criteria of the responsibility of each social worker for his professional activity, which requires a unified approach to the setting of moral principles and norms, a clear understanding, unified system of values, ideals and their implementation.

 

Literature:

1. Holostova E.I. Social worker's professional and spiritual portrait. Ì., 1993. 12-13 p.

2. Atvater I.A. Listening to you. Ì., 1984.  44 p.

3. Primak L.P. Self communication. Ì., 1991, 182p.

3Averchanko L.K. Management psychology. Novocherksk, 1994. 12-13 p.

4. Kertaeva G.M. The bases of pedagogical deontology. Pavlodar, 2009.

5. Philisophic encyclopedia. Prohorov A.M. Ì., 1989.  124 p.

 

 

Annotation

 

The article devoted to the problems of deontological readiness of social worker. The indicators of professional readiness should be represented by comprehensive characteristic, which includes not only knowledge and skills, but its personal features providing the aspect of adequate in professional activity.