Professional Development of a Social Worker
The Article describes the problems of social workers’ professional activities at the different stages of professional development. It argues that the process of forming the system of professional important skills (PIS) of a social worker is subjected by the regularities,which concrete and supplement the general laws of systemogenesis (irregularities, heterochrony nonlinearity). At the stage of professional education and training (high education institution) the highest analytic level of developing of some PIS could be achieved, but the formation of structural systematic links of PIS is going on at the next stages of professional development and obtains the top level at the stage of professional mastery. Deviations of PIS structure ( decline in the level of some PIS, as well as weakening of structural links of PIS), which are adequate to the current stage of professional development, can affect the professional activities of a social worker, as well as his personal satisfaction with his job. At the same time at the stage of advanced professionalism and the higher stages of professional development these deviations are often dialed with the professional personal destruction, particularly — professional «burning-out» syndrome and professional marginalization. Keeping in mind above tendencies the Author recommends to provide social workers with psychological support, to hold special seminars and training, oriented to prevent and correct the personal professional deformation.