TRAINING OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS FOR THE PROVISION OF REHABILITATION SERVICES IN THE COMMUNITY

Abstract

The article analyses the state of training of specialists for the provision of rehabilitation services in the community, identifies the uniqueness of the implementation of relevant educational programmes in a particular higher education institution (Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University), and identifies promising areas for improvement.The author describes the areas that provide a content component in the process of training specialists ready to provide rehabilitation services in the community: taking into account the requirements of international and Ukrainian legislation that determine the policy, standards, and mechanism for the provision of rehabilitation services; meeting the requirements of compliance of educational programmes with the standards of higher education in the relevant specialities; taking into account the requirements of professional standards of social sphere professions in the content of educational programmes; the availability of educational components that ensure the formation of programmatic results of training in the provision of rehabilitation assistance; practical training of specialists on the basis of social sphere institutions that provide rehabilitation services; research activities on social and psychological rehabilitation; project activities in the community, which allows searching for and implementing creative ideas, attracting additional funding, providing additional services for the rehabilitation of vulnerable categories of citizens, attracting higher education seekers to such activities; membership in international and Ukrainian professional associations on the subject of rehabilitation, in particular in the Association of Inclusive Rehabilitation and Social Tourism. Along with theoretical and methodological developments, long-range objectives are identified according to the requirements of our time and reforms in the fields of education, social sphere, and health care.