PERSONAL GROWTH GROUP OF NURSES OF PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AS AN INNOVATIVE FORM OF WORK

Abstract

The article highlights the peculiarities of the organization and content of the work of the Personal Growth Group on the example of the participants – nurses of preschool educational institutions. Considering the fact that nurses work in preschool educational institutions, they must know the psychological characteristics of preschool children, be able to establish communicative interaction with pupils, their parents, specialists of the preschool educational institution, and have formed psychological competence. The situations that have arisen recently and are related to the provision of psychological support and support (in the conditions of COVID-19 and at the present time) are highlighted. The results of modern experimental studies, which demonstrate psychological problems among specialists in medical specialties, are analyzed: self-doubt, emotional attitude, frustration etc. We chose expedient forms of work that would contribute to solving the specified tasks. The group approach of Joseph Pratt, a specialist in internal medicine at the Massachusetts Hospital in Boston, who was the first to recognize the relationship between the psychological state and the physical course of the disease and conducted group psychotherapy for people who do not have somatic diseases, was analyzed. Later, at Jakob Levi, Moreno created a specific and sufficiently structured form of group therapy – psychodrama, the elements of which are used in the Personal Growth Group, which we conducted with the nurses of preschool educational institutions. Although historically, personal growth trainings were initiated by O. Everett, in particular the Mind Dynamics training, soon the Lifespring process was formed from this training direction. For our part, we also took into account the feedback of K. Rudestam and L. Vygotsky about the specifics of the training work. The article highlighted the essence and stages of the work of the Personal Growth Group. They submitted a theoretical description and practical forms of training. The results of an innovative form of work were demonstrated – the unification of nurses of preschool educational institutions in the Personal Growth Group.