Psychological Strategies for Overcoming the Life Crisis of the Individual in Postmodern Practical Psychology

The article talks about the personality-oriented approach of postmodern practical psychology to counseling a crisis client. Coping strategies for overcoming a life crisis by a person at the cognitive, emotional and behavioral levels are analyzed. Based on the consideration of practical work with crisis clients, algorithms for overcoming a crisis situation in the form of stages and phases of its experience are highlighted. The important role of neuropsychological correction at the first stage of work with the client is emphasized. Theoretical and methodological provisions of postmodern psychotherapy and practical psychology on the features of psychological support of a crisis client, taking into account his personal resource. The variability of the personality as one of its fundamental properties and the psychological mechanism providing a flexible choice of coping strategies, process of adaptation to conditions of crisis situation are considered. It is revealed that in the conditions of overcoming the life crisis there are personal transformations as expression and development of specific personal characteristics and properties. The model of overcoming a life crisis situation by an individual in the context of postmodern practical psychology is presented. In the presented author’s model of overcoming the personal crisis the postmodernist, personality-oriented and phenomenological approaches are applied.</p

Comparative Research in the Field of Professional Education of Preschool Teachers: Comparative Content Analysis as a Method of Authentic Interpretation of Concepts

The article is devoted to the disclosure of psycholinguistic aspects of comparative research, in particular the specifics of speech and thinking activities of the comparativist in the application of comparative content analysis of Ukrainian and English scientific pedagogical terminology. Theoretical aspects of comparative content analysis in comparative pedagogical research are revealed, which consist in: objectivity of system and quantitative description of the available content of the term; counting the semantic units represented in the information array that are determined; objectivity of conclusions and rigour of a procedure; quantification of text processing with the subsequent interpretation of the results of the analytical review of the phenomenon under study. It is determined that the speech-thinking activity of a comparativist is characterised by a step-by-step and complex of complementary, interconnected operations, which consist of the following components: motivationaltarget, cognitive-semantic, reproductive-activity, creative-active,evaluative-reflexive. It was determined that the methodological aspects of the application of comparative content analysis are the necessity to separate units for analysis, the formation of a sample that will ensure the authenticity of the interpretation of the concept in the domestic research-pedagogical thesaurus