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Abstract : Compatible Behavior as an Actual Problem of Modernity
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Abstract: The article reflects the results of an empirical study in the field of the problem of coping behavior. Based on the research results of foreign and domestic scientists, we conclude that coping behavior is nothing more than a special purposeful socially-oriented behavior of a person, providing him with productivity, health and both psychological and social well-being. Considering that the formation of the experience of coping behavior is a prolonged and ongoing process throughout a person’s life, we determined the study of the specifics of coping behavior among students of higher educational institutions as the targets of our research. Moreover, as the main hypothesis of the study, we formulate an assumption about the dependence and conditionality of the experience of coping behavior on the age and training course of the respondents. Keywords: Mental states, coping behavior, coping strategies, stress. |
Abstract : Psychological and Pedagogical Support of the Future Social Work Specialist’s Professional Development
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Abstract: The article focuses on the issue of psychological and pedagogical support in the professional growth of a social worker. The main structural components of the professional and personal development cover the cognitive, motivation-axiological, social-perceptive, emotional-volitional and communicative spheres of the human activity. The future social work specialist’s competency development is a result of a continuous internal struggle for the spiritual perfection, realization of the creative potential, achievement of wholeness, and the determination to abandon the “thing-in-oneself”-state in behalf of the “better-self”-development. The essential premise for the professional development of a social worker is the possibility to choose ways of professional self-realization in the ambiguity zone and the necessity of the certainty zone existence. These two zones allow the future specialists to actualize their motivation of choosing the ways to their professional development. This actualization goes more efficiently if there is interaction of the parties united by the shared goal and activity, which develops different forms of collaboration and discloses individual creative features. It has been established that the psychological and pedagogical model of the future social work specialist’s development includes the following core constituents: the study and development of the professionalism structure and its components on the basis of its development indicators; the consideration of psychological and pedagogical conditions and factors ensuring productive development of the social sphere specialists; the formation of the need in self-realization, the development of communicative skills, creative and individual potentials, teaching self-regulation and self-perfection skills. The model creates premises for the effective realization of the continuity principle as it characterizes the nature of the ‘actual development zone’ and focuses on the “proximal development zone”. Keywords: Model, modelling, psychological and pedagogical support, development of the social worker’s professionalism. |
Abstract : Image of Geopolitical and Cultural Catastrophe in the Poetry of Oleg Chukhontsev
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Abstract: Oleg Chukhontsev is one of the most outstanding modern Russian poets. In his creativity, there was only one period when he almost did not create from late 1980 to the second half of the 1990s. This is the time of post-Soviet disintegration, and for the majority of the Russian population, it was a difficult experience. In the rare works created by Chukhontsev at that time, the country’s geopolitical and cultural catastrophe is somehow interpreted. As it usually happens with a poet, it naturally combines various semantic plans like external realistic and several symbolic. At Southern Night, Chukhontsev has embodied the feeling of a complete end and this work perfectly combines deeply personal motives and motives that convey the image of a geopolitical and cultural catastrophe. As the author states, everything has died, both his former poetics (personal meaning) and his former country (general meaning). The poet has lost the gift of speech because he ceased to feel an organic connection with his native land since it was “seriously ill and was almost at death”. By the time of the creation of Closing the Season Chukhontsev, as a poet, had managed to renew himself. Keywords: Oleg chukhontsev, Contemporary poetry, Russian literature, Cultural catastrophe, Geopolitical catastrophe. |
Abstract : Pastoral Care in End-of-Life: Can you be Healed when there is No Cure?
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Abstract: When death is coming for sure, the terminally ill patients will be in sorrow. For them who do not have hope of being medically cured, do having joy and feeling serene become a possibility? Can they be healed at some point? This research aims to describe the existential experiences of the terminally illness patients’ family receiving a pastoral care. While the patients deteriorate because of illness, what type and kind of care they found most helpful? This research was a qualitative study with a phenomenology method. This paper is part of a bigger case study conducted in a Catholic hospital in Indonesia. The subjects for this research were the families of terminally ill patients. They were interviewed whether they have received pastoral care and the significance of it. The presence of pastoral care staffs and their visits were significant for the families and the patients. They feel strengthened in facing this difficult times. In particular, the spirit of the patients uplifted, they no longer feel angry with their condition and are in process of accepting the death coming their way. They found prayers as powerful resources. All the participants agreed that the pastoral care is important part for the patients’ healing. Catholic hospitals in Indonesia should be aware to provide a holistic healing. Pastoral care is one of key factors to maintain the spirit of institutions. It is the way to humanize the patients and families in their end-of-life care. Keywords: Spiritual accompaniment, pastoral care, end-of-life care, palliative, phenomenology. |
