CONTENT COMPONENTS OF THE PROGRAM AND MAIN TECHNIQUES OF SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAINING OF A POLICE OFFICER’S SOCIAL MENTAL CAPACITY

Abstract

It has been noted that social mental capacity provides obtaining and efficient processing of maximum information about the behavior of people and groups. Improvement of abilities of social mental capacity of the person takes place with the help of specially organized training.

Suggested by the author techniques of social and psychological training of social mental capacity of police officers are mostly aimed at the development of such abilities: to adequately perceive the emotional reactions of partners within professional communication; correctly understand the motives
of the interlocutors; to anticipate the development of a communicative situation; to adequately perceive the verbal expression of interlocutors; correctly understand own influence on the deployment of the situation of interaction; the ability to express oneself clearly for the various individual characteristics of individuals. It has been stressed that in the process of training it is necessary to strive for the participants to have a correct, integral, close to the intuitive understanding of emotions, states, motives in the process of communication, etc. Regarding police officers with experience, we must pay attention to reducing stereotypes in the processes of social phenomena cognition.

It has been noted that the program of social and psychological training of social mental capacity often includes mini-lectures, individual work exercises, activities in small groups (4–5 people) and the activity of the whole group. The author has presented techniques of social and psychological training of social mental capacity that can be used by psychologist trainers in the process of professional training of cadets in higher educational establishments with specific training conditions or during the advanced training of police officers from different divisions. Techniques of social and psychological training of social mental capacity were selected by the author and tested in the process of teaching at Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs. From the proposed techniques, the psychologist trainer can compile a scenario of social and psychological training of the abilities of social mental capacity for participants with certain differences within the content of professional activity.