Psychological and pedagogical support of students during initial training in training centers of the Russian FederalPenitentiary Service as a condition of developing professionally important qualities
Developing professionally important qualities in the staff of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (further referred to as FPS) continues to be a problem of importance. There is not enough attention paid to this problem with regard to the employees that maintain order and safety in the FPS institutions. The main feature of professional activity of the employee is daily contact with the imprisoned. Conditions and rules of such communication require compliance with laws and regulations. Certainly, the specified features imply a number of requirements to the development of professionally important qualities in the FPS employees. Developing professionally important qualities requires a certain attitude to the process. Such attitude has to be shaped during the initial training of employees in training centers of the Russian FPS. The article considers the results of empirical research on the features of developing professionally important qualities in the staff of criminal and executive system during initial training in training centers of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service. Psychological and pedagogical monitoring of students in training centers of the Russian FPS is an important condition of developing professionally important qualities. In elaborating the program of psychological and pedagogical monitoring of students a special attention was paid to introducing in educational process such forms of psychological and pedagogical work that would help to form legal consciousness in the student by developing necessary professionally important qualities. The developed program of psychological and pedagogical support was tested on the students of initial training course in the training center of the Russian FPS. The main objective of the program is to provide the most favorable conditions for developing professionally important qualities in the FPS employees. These professionally important qualities are based on personal qualities with regard to their development in the penitentiary environment. The assessment of the program's efficiency was carried out on the basis of psychodiagnostic techniques and the subsequent processing of results by the methods of mathematical statistics. Measurements were made on the students at the beginning of the training and after the end of it. The results of applying the program showed positive change in the development of professionally important qualities. The greatest change was seen in the development of emotional intelligence. The ability to understand feelings and emotions of other people is crucial for the efficient fulfillment of official duties by the FPS employees. Introducing the program of psychological and pedagogical monitoring of students in training centers of the Russian FPS already at the initial stage of professional activity helps to create necessary potential for developing professionally important qualities of the FPS employee.