PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS FOR THE FORMATION OF COMPETENCE IN THE PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION OF STUDENTS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL FACULTIES OF UNIVERSITIES

Every year requirements to high – quality training of specialists psychologists raise and the special importance is gained by a problem of identification of psychology and pedagogical conditions of formation of competence of professional communication of students of psychological faculties of higher education institutions. As showed the analysis of the researches conducted in domestic and foreign psychology, the competence of communication is one of the phenomena which are most studied by psychologists recently.
Communication is the most important category of psychological science. The perspective of communication takes an important place in the general psychology and in psychology of the personality. The pedagogical psychology can be considered through a communication prism as practically all parties of processes of education and training are mediated by communication. Communication is essentially the central concept of social psychology as it generates such phenomena as perception and understanding by people of each other; leadership and management; unity and conflictness, etc.
In our work we consider relevance of process of training of psychologists which is caused by mass character of this profession and its importance for modern society and also insufficiency of the psychology and pedagogical works devoted to a research of conditions of formation of competence of professional communication, the being psychologist, basic for professional activity. It is obvious that the significant part in professional formation of students’ psychologists is assigned to formation of competence of professional communication today.

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