Collective activity and genuine leadership of specialists of psychological services of the University
The relevance of research. Many little-studied problems of psychological services of universities are associated with a limited understanding of their functions and essence, with a tendency to consider either the individual or organizational level of work of specialists of services against the background of ignoring issues: 1) interpersonal, intra-group relations in the process of work and development of professionals, as well as 2) the activities of services as a leader of organizational (university-wide) changes. Problem statement. Psychological services of the university act as leaders of organizational changes. Acting as a professional team united by the tasks of psychological support for the development of subjects of education, they contribute to overcoming crises and the development of an educational organization and its individual members. The purpose of the study is to comprehend the collective aspects of the activities of specialists of modern psychological services of the university, to analyze the phenomenon of genuine leadership as the leading function of the psychological service of the university in the situation of educational reforms and innovations. The research method is an integrative theoretical analysis of the problems of collective activity of specialists of university psychological services. The results of the study. The indicator of the quality of the work of the psychological service of the university is the achievement by the university of the state of the "educational team". Implementing a strategy of genuine leadership, declaring as the most important values of the development of subjects of education, psychological services of the university form and help university staff and students to turn into a team united around these values. The scope of application of the results is modeling and implementation of effective work programs of specialists of psychological and other services of the university as subjects of interdisciplinary cooperation and genuine leadership that meet modern achievements of science and practice of psychological assistance.