Graduate student
majoring in social work Kusainova A.T.
Ñandidate of pedagogical Sciences, associate Professor Kendirbekova Z.H.
The Karaganda State
University of the name of academician E.A.Buketov, Kazakhstan
Features of the formation of the
modern professional social worker
At the present stage of development of social work and the priority
given to the problems of natural formation of professionalism of social
workers, expanding holistic entity personnel potential of social services and
the ways to gain the training and retraining of various categories of social
work professionals.
Uncertainty and instability of the modern world are creating new
incentives and opportunities for increasing the role of professional social
workers in the resolution, overcoming, or at least mitigate many social
conflicts, social exclusion, establishment of a new stratification of Kazakh
society, the formation of the welfare state and, of course, civil society.
Professionalism in social work - not an abstract concept, distant from
the real needs of the modern Kazakh society and essential characteristic of
specific types of social activities, such as social service, social education,
social studies, etc.
The process of professional development is presented as a social worker
in the gradual acquisition of professionally significant characteristics,
mastering professional knowledge and skills, role functions. Outline some
features of this process.
Vocational and personal development can not take place in isolation from
the overall development of human beings, so includes all components of the
holistic development of the individual.
It is known that the formation of man as a professional is closely
linked with its development as a person; personal space wider professional and
significantly affects him. Identity of the person usually has a positive effect
on the choice of profession, the course of professional adaptation,
professional fulfillment, stimulates professional excellence and creativity.
Professional personality traits as their formation and development are
beginning to reverse (positive or negative) influence on the personality.
Content of professional development as a socio-pedagogical phenomenon
includes the unity and struggle of opposites: domestic needs, motives and
external goals and objectives, processes and internalization of external
effects, interactions and interaction
that provides its real dynamics and achieve full professional personality
and activities.
Professional development depends on factors such as the subjective
nature (eg inclination possibilities, abilities, values,
motivational readiness, etc.) and objective (eg, the importance of the
profession in the society and its legal and social status, etc.).
Professional development of social workers - is the process of oncoming
traffic and the society of the individual; it is characterized by the unity of
the social order and human needs in the creation of his own life as a unique .
It appears as an organic unity of outer and inner world of the individual,
objective and subjective factors, and continuing professional education is a
means, the condition of this interaction, the basis for achieving excellence
and individual activities.
Currently, many researchers (B.G.Bocharov, A.I.Lyashenko, N.B. Shmelev)
develop models of professionalism and individual social workers at different
levels.
The first level consists of the characterization of objective and
subjective indicators of the overall plan, which are reflected in the person
and work of senior students have: personality match the requirements of the
profession, its willingness and readiness to make their professional knowledge
and skills in social practice; sufficiently high productivity technologies used
in the field of social assistance, adaptation, rehabilitation person, group of
persons with various problems.
The second level is for indicators of professionalism inherent in
skilled professionals varying specialization : 1) Procedure (the effectiveness
of the methods, techniques, technology, social work ); 2) legal and ethical
(matching the person and work eligibility requirements and ethical principles,
norms , standards) ; 3) cash basis of personality and activity (the level of
preparedness of the person and his professional activity at the moment); 4)
score (quality of effectiveness, efficiency, social work , professional status
of the person in this activity); 5) predictive (desire to "design"
their skills as individuals and activities in achieving the "acme" -
the highest point of career ); 6) professional learning (desire, motivation,
constantly improve the professional and personal level , learn from peers, the
desire for self-education, self-development); 7) active social position,
competitive personality and profession.
The third level is not only the above-mentioned characteristics of
professionalism, but also supplemented by indicators such as creativity,
individuality and innovation.
Creativity is seen as a new formation that goes beyond professionalism. Difficulties
that exist in solving professional problems of varying complexity, have to
overcome not only because of the great interest in the results of the work, but
also the ability to concentrate, having a high endurance, flexibility and
analyticity mind. It promotes self-assertion of the individual in activities,
appearing most important category of the person as an individual. Considering
personality in the profession, it may be noted that it is something more than
creativity, as personal-individual qualities, traits and properties help a
person to reveal themselves in the profession so that all biological and
mental, personal originality originality becomes professional, making unique
manner of work, to exercise individual professional handwriting style of work.
The term "personal identification and profession", also often
used by foreign psychologists (E. Roe, D. Super , etc.), merging means life
with his professional activities in which they acquired the quality and
properties begin to appear in all other spheres of life and determine its
relationship to reality. All life begins to obey the interests of the
profession, they come to the fore. The result of the formation of identity
becomes vocational personality type.
It is known that the process of interaction between the individual and
the profession in the broadest sense is bilateral. Formed in the activities of
acquiring peculiar to representatives of the professional group, common basic
features, qualities and attributes, personality has a transformative effect on
the activity itself . "Story" himself, he builds and professional
environment and contributes to the development of the profession itself (new
profession) - a social worker - by creating its content- technological
foundations , creative understanding of goals, objectives, methods and
techniques of social protection rights.
Specialist professional has a "restless" nature in terms of
the desire to use non-standard, but effective, means, methods for social
assistance, compensation, rehabilitation, man. He constantly searching for
optimal methods of social work, seeks to learn from their colleagues, domestic
and foreign experience. His colleagues sometimes do not see it any bright
professional features, but at the same time he still personifies a particular
professional strategy.
Specialist innovator, has a certain professional position, evident in
their professional environment, as it symbolizes her, in favor of its ideology.
Social worker of this type, selecting all interesting and useful (from
experience, literature, printing), for its efficiency as it produces
professional-personal conception of his work, combining the system of personal
and professional values.
Thus, the professional development of social worker - a complex,
continuous process of "design" of the personality. Awareness of its
future activities already motivates students to develop the knowledge required
to obtain a special, professional development in the field of social work and
the achievement of a certain level of skill. Last , according to E.F. Zeer ,
acquired as a result of the passage of five stages:
- "Option" - the formation of professional and personal
intentions, informed career choices based on individual psychological
characteristics;
- "Training" - the formation of a professional orientation and
professional knowledge and skills, the acquisition of theoretical and practical
experience in professional situations and solving problems;
- "Professional adaptation" - getting into the profession, the
development of a new social role, professional self-determination, the
formation of personal and professional qualities, experience, independent of
professional activity;
- "Professionalization" - the formation of a professional
position, the integration of personal and professional qualities and skills
important in a relatively stable professionally relevant education, qualified
performance of professional activities;
- "Professional skills" - the full realization,
self-realization of the individual in professional activities using creativity
based mobile integrated psychological neoplasms.
In this regard professionalism as one of the leading terms of social
work is based and is based on personal and professional qualities, values
and interests of the social worker. Development of these
qualities and entities formalization model of professional activity contributes
to the decision, from our point of view, the following tasks:
- Development of personal interest in their chosen profession;
- The formation of the original assumptions about the basics of
professional work;
- Formation of professional motivational installation on future
operations;
- Formation of professional and personal "self-concept".
Thus, obtaining a profession - a crucial stage of human life associated
with professional self-determination and professional adaptation and further
formation ultimately professionalism. The starting point is the content of the
answers to the questions:
- What do I want from my career?
- What should I do to achieve success in your chosen
career move?
- What can I (should) be done to realize the potential and personal
interests?
Under these conditions, the future of the social worker has a special
mission, which he can perform only on condition of formation of special
personal qualities. They acquire social significance, are prerequisite for the
development of both production and social relations.
Of course, a prerequisite for the development of the individual as a
professional - specialist social - playing interdependence trend forming
professional and individual social worker. This trend reflects a certain
pattern: personality develops and manifests itself in the activities of its
essence. Process interaction personality and professional activities in the
broad sense is bilateral. Formed in the activities of acquiring peculiar to
representatives of the socio- professional group of properties, qualities,
personality has a transformative effect on the activity itself.
"Build" themselves in activities personality forms and
professional environment, the community, contributing to the development and
improvement of social work, provides individual creative rethinking objectives,
content, shapes, forms and technologies of social care and support, correction
and rehabilitation of both the individual and groups of people in difficult
social conditions of life.
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