The psychological model of the specialist-defectologist’s readiness for professional and acmeological development

Abstract

© 2019, Kazan Federal University. All rights reserved. In this study the author proceeds from the assumptions that the professional competence of a specialist who works with people with disabilities is based on psychological readiness as an integral personal quality of professional assisting people’s professions that are directly related to the willingness of a subject of professional activity to professional acmeological development. However the specialist-defectologist must, firstly, have a psychological readiness to work in the absence of ready-made algorithms to provide assistance; secondly, to be able to predict in conditions of a deficit of information because of the high degree of differentiation in the psychophysical development of persons with disabilities; thirdly, constantly accumulate observations and use the increased volume of information with the aim of its optimal adaptation and development as the main criterion for the effectiveness of the correctional-pedagogical process. Thus, the defectologists, listeners of advanced training courses, were taken as an experimental group of this empirical research as a group of specialists who decided to develop additional educational space. The study was conducted with psychodiagnostic tools: valid and reliable questionnaires, a computer program for statistical processing of SPSS data. Interpretation of the data was carried out according to their compliance with N (0.1) and a high level of reliability: p≤0.001** and p≤0.01**. As the result within the framework of the psychological model of readiness, the potential factors for expanding the zone of professional competence of the defectologist were determined: “self-respect”, “adaptability” and a system-forming indicator with high factor load (from the block of motivational personal characteristics of psychological readiness) - “motivation to achieve success”.