Journal of Intellectual Disability - Diagnosis and Treatment

Number 9/5, 2021

423-431
Emotional well-being, emotional health, emotional comfort, emotionality of learning, students

Authors: Larysa A. Afanasenko, Oksana O. Oliinyk, Marianna H. Tkalych, Nataliia O. Guba, Vera A. Gnevasheva

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Objective: Emotional intelligence is an indicator of a person's ability to communicate, the ability to be aware of their emotions and understand the feelings of others. Background: The development of the emotional intelligence of junior university students occurs through various activities, especially in the process of specially organised training and education. This work aims to study the mechanisms of formation of emotional intelligence and stages of formation of emotional intelligence in psychology students. Method: Data analysis, synthesis and pedagogical modelling were used. Scientific works on the formation of emotional intelligence were studied. Results: This paper presents a model of the formation of emotional intelligence in students of psychology and practical recommendations for the formation of emotional intelligence in students. Conclusion: The results obtained in this work can be used in practice during the training of psychological and pedagogical faculties students. Also, the materials presented in this paper can be used by teachers of psychology and pedagogy.

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Inclusive Education as a Condition for Innovative Activities at Higher Education Institutions

Authors: Yuliia M. Bahno, Olena M. Serhiichuk, Svitlana M. Tanana, Larysa V. Tkachenko, Olena S. Khmelnytska

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This study discusses the activities of higher education institutions in the context of inclusive education as an innovative approach. The introduction of inclusive education in the modern higher education system is highly important. The existing specialised education system is undergoing changes resulting in new requirements for work with people with special educational needs in various areas. The purpose of this study is to consider the mechanism of implementation of inclusive education in the activities of higher education institutions, which ensures accessibility and requires high-quality education, in particular, taking into account the educational needs of every individual. The problems of the educational process faced by the students are analysed in detail. This study justifies the necessity of introducing inclusive education in modern educational systems, describes positive experiences of some higher education establishments, provides a step-by-step analysis of the introduction of inclusive education in higher education institutions in Ukraine and defines promising areas for its implementation. This study's theoretical and methodological basis included the works of the world’s leading scientists and a regulatory framework for inclusive education. The article presents students’ attitudes to the implementation of inclusive education. To achieve these objectives, the analysis of the latest research on the implementation of the right to education of persons with special educational needs was carried out. The study results showed a positive attitude towards inclusive education and joint education of people with special educational needs. The study found that inclusive education requires more time and effort to organise the educational process. The introduction of inclusive education elements can increase the efficiency of this process. The effective use of the methods to implement inclusive education in higher education institutions contributes to achieving its goals and results. The introduction of inclusive education provides an effective operational analysis of training quality for students with special educational needs and educational process adjustments, which ultimately creates a management system

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Emotional Intelligence and Burnout of Teachers of Higher Education Institutions

Authors: Vitalii Y. Bocheliuk, Serhiy S. Shcherbyna, Anastasiia V. Turubarova, Iryna Yu. Antonenko, Nataliya V. Rukolyanska

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Emotional intelligence is an important resource for overcoming professional stress in members of socionomic professions. The research objective is to determine the role of its components in the development of emotional burnout. A natural experiment was conducted, which determined the manifestations of emotional burnout of 56 university teachers at the end of the academic year. The author used the questionnaire. Two experimental groups were identified in the general sample: teachers with burnout and those resistant to burnout (16 and 30 people, respectively). At the end of the academic year, signs of burnout were detected in one-third of university teachers. The leading symptoms are emotional exhaustion and depersonalisation, with no reduction in professional achievement. The dynamics of emotional life during the annual professional cycle are shown. The integrated indicator of emotional intelligence (EI) remains at the same level, but there are structural changes in the components of intrapersonal intelligence. At the end of the year, teachers' attention to their emotional states, work roles, and communication increase significantly. At the same time, there is a decrease in the ability to manage their own emotions. Resistance to burnout is accompanied by a high ability to realise and control their own emotions with a relatively vague focus on the emotional states of others. It was concluded that individual components of EI (intrapersonal and interpersonal, understanding and management) have different effects on burnout symptoms.

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Cooperation with Parents on Environmental Education of Preschool Children with Speech Disorders

Authors: Nataliia Horopakha, Olha Shadiuk, Nadiia Frolenkova, Olena Sotska, Anzhela Proseniuk

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This article presents a comprehensive pedagogical technology for correctional and developmental work with parents and their preschool children with speech disorders. The purpose of this article is also to consider the change in parents' attitude to the environmental education of a child with speech disorders. The project is designed to involve parents and increase their interest in the environmental education of preschoolers with speech disorders. It is investigated to what extent the involvement of parents and teachers in joint research projects increases competencies in terms of knowledge, abilities, and attitudes to educational processes. The article uses several methods of synthesis and analysis in research. The descriptive method and the experimental method were also used. The hypothesis is that using a comprehensive program involving parents for research and experimental activities in environmental education of preschool children with speech disorders promotes the more successful acquisition of knowledge about nature, improves therapy, and strengthens family relationships. In technology, attention is paid to the actual educational activities and the reflection of teachers' and parents' internal structures of competencies. The presented technology systematizes the instrumental-methodical, expressive (behavioral) aspects of teaching and raising a child with speech disorders and provides a universal basis for any intervention program to change attitudes and involve parents in educational work

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Impact of Emotional-Volitional Sphere of Future Specialists of Risky Professions on Professional Training Performance

Authors: Nataliia S. Kucherenko, Yuliia O. Bilotserkivska, Andriy L. Zlotnikov, Dmytro P. Prykhodko

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Objective: The professional activities of specialists of risky professions are carried out in extreme conditions, characterized by a significant number of stressful factors, which, if the professional qualities of specialists are not sufficiently developed, leads to a decrease in the efficiency of performance of official duties, professional burnout, and psychosomatic disorders. Background: The success of the performance of service tasks is primarily influenced by the developmental level of the emotional-volitional sphere, in particular self-regulation, emotional-volitional stability, ensuring the ability to make autonomous decisions, form and determine tasks following the requirements of complex, changing situations, and therefore, achieve their goals. The article aims to analyze the emotional and volitional state of future specialists of risky professions during training. Method: The leading research method was observation. The emotional-volitional sphere is an integral part of the system of regulating activity as a professional. During the research, the main areas of the formation of the emotional-volitional sphere were identified. With the help of psychological analysis, the important properties of future specialists in the development of the emotional-volitional sphere have been determined. Results: The analysis results show that future specialists have an average and low level of stylistic possibilities for selfregulation (modeling, programming, autonomy). The reasons for the low progress of future specialists have been determined. Conclusion: The practical significance of the research lies in the development of recommendations for training and the formation of the emotional-volitional sphere during educational activities

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Practice-Oriented Teaching in Preparing Future Teachers-Psychologists for Professional Activity

Authors: Gulmira N. Manashova, Larissa A. Shkutina, Natalya V. Mirza, Gulmira B. Beisenbekova, Gulden N. Jabayeva

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In this article, devoted to the problem of professional training of future teachers-psychologists based on practice-oriented teaching, the research results, tested during the educational process, are presented. They are as follows: the essence of the concept "professional competence" of a teacher is specified; based on the analysis of existing approaches to the study of the structure of professional readiness, personal, intellectual-operational, motivational, communicative, and reflexive components are determined; the structural and functional model of practice-oriented teaching of future teachers-psychologists has been developed following the pedagogical features of practice-oriented teaching and the identified pedagogical conditions, which includes four interrelated blocks: the target, the methodological, the content-procedural, the learning outcome. The criteria of professional training of future teacherspsychologists on the basis of practice-oriented teaching (personal, intellectual-operational, motivational, communicative, and reflexive) and levels of readiness are defined: reproductive (low), adaptive (medium), and integrative (high). The development and consolidation of skills in students is carried out by solving specific tasks of professional activity, during which students try to explain the procedure for solving a specific professional task and check the actual material in practice. The practice-oriented content of the educational material allows bringing teaching closer to specific situations of professional activity, the chosen specialty, to form the life experience of students, thus increasing the level of knowledge and skills, cognitive interest, and, as a result, to form the level of professional competence of students

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Single Vibroacoustic Impact Effect of Singing Bowls over the Psycho-Emotional State and Cardiovascular System Work

Authors: Victor O. Oguy, Evgeniy Bykov, Evgeniy Litvichenko

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This article presents a two-stage study result of the author's method of vibroacoustic massage using singing bowls application. At the first stage, the effect of vibroacoustic massage single application over psycho-emotional characteristics was studied. 19 studied volunteers took part in our study. The testing results before and after exposures were compared according to the WAM (Weighted average mark), Zung, and Spielberg-Khanin tests. The study of the psycho-emotional sphere showed that after the vibroacoustic massage procedure, the indicators of "well-being" and "activity" of the WAM test significantly improved (p = 0.002). In addition, the depression level determined by the Zung test, personal anxiety indicators (p = 0.004), and situational anxiety ones (p = 0.028) decreased. At the second stage, 62 volunteers were divided into two groups. The first group underwent a vibroacoustic massage session according to the patented author's method. The second group received only acoustic exposure using only singing bowls. Differences in the Kerdo index were revealed in the dynamics, and in the first group, the changes were less significant than in the second one. Changes in heart rate variability characteristics for both groups were similar: there was an increase in parasympathetic influences at rest and during the orthostatic test (increased levels of RMSSD (Root Mean Square of Successive Differences), NN50, pNN50) and a decrease in sympathetic effects at rest and their slight increase with orthostatic loading (TINN, RR triangular index). The dynamics were more significant in the first group that received a vibroacoustic massage session. When assessing changes in the neurovegetative regulation levels activity of the heart rhythm, the main difference was associated with very low-frequency waves power dynamics during the orthostatic test. Thus, vibroacoustic massage using singing bowls improves the psycho-emotional state, reduces depression and anxiety, and increases Parasympaticus (autonomic nervous system) activity.

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Dynamics of the Professional Endurance Indicators in Officers of the Operational Level in a Higher Military Educational Institution During Training

Authors: Dmytro G. Oleniev, Oleksandr V. Petrachkov, Nazarii B. Verbyn, Vadym A. Shemchuk, Anzhela M. Tiazhyna

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The paper presents the results of an experimental study on the development of professional endurance and psycho-emotional stability in the future officers of operational level during training in a higher military educational institution. The educational research was conducted in three stages, in the National Defence University of Ukraine, named after Ivan Cherniakhovskyi. The current level of professional endurance in this category of officers gave grounds to assume that with traditional approaches to the organisation of the educational process, it is quite difficult to achieve a high level of development of this property. Therefore, there is a need to find and substantiate the pedagogical conditions for developing professional endurance in officers and improving their mental health. To confirm the effectiveness of the implementation of the conditions defined by the authors at the beginning and end of the experiment, a comparison of the obtained data of the experimental group (EG) and control group (CG) was carried out according to the authors’ criteria and indicators. The results of the study on the implementation and substantiation of pedagogical conditions for the development of professional endurance in officers confirmed that the proposed measures contributed to the effective development of this quality. Statistical methods ensure that the officers from the EG had statistically significant changes in professional endurance as a result of the experiment. Comparison of the development of professional endurance in the EG at the beginning and end of the experiment using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test confirmed the effectiveness of implementing appropriate pedagogical conditions for the development of professional endurance and psycho-emotional stability.

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Study of the Characteristic Mental Development Features of Primary School Students with Visçion Impairments

Authors: Ievgeniia Synova, Valentina Tarasun, Iryna Sasina, Tetyana Grebeniuk, Kateryna Glushenko

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Severe vision impairments are an obstacle to the adequate cognitive and social development of the child. The educational response to priority problems that occur with vision disorders requires appropriate training of vision impairment specialists. For this purpose, they need basic knowledge related to the classification of vision impairments and the main aspects of the development and education of this category of children. This study aimed to analyse the main features of educational activities of children with vision impairments using special diagnostic methods and to search for effective methods for correcting the cognitive activity of children with vision impairments. During the study, an experiment was conducted with children with vision impairments (15 children). To conduct the experiment, the study used methods proposed by V.V. Tarasun and adapted them to the contingent of children with vision impairments. In particular, the following methods: the method of motivational preferences "Three wishes", the method of "Memorising 10 words", and the method of "What, why, how". The depth and time of vision impairment are considered as a primary defect, which has corresponding secondary consequences and requires corrective action under the guidance of an experienced vision impairment specialist.

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Fundamentals and Main Provisions of the Functional-Procedural Concept of Mental Deprivation

Authors: Yuliana M. Terletska

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Science still does not have a single scientifically sound concept of mental deprivation, which would explain its psychological essence, this mental phenomenon cannot be adequately assessed, or measures to prevent or eliminate negative mental phenomena it provoked cannot be developed. The article aims to reveal the basic principles and substantiate the main provisions of the functional-procedural concept of mental deprivation. Psycho-energetic and energy-psycho-functional approaches were used, as well as methods of analysis, synthesis, abstraction, specification, comparison, generalisation, and grouping of knowledge about the human psyche. The functional-procedural concept of mental deprivation of humans covers an interconnected system of provisions. According to them, mental deprivation is a course of more or less powerful destructive processes in the functioning of his psyche. Such processes arose from the destruction of mental parameters in various areas due to long-term unfulfilling necessary for normal functioning and development. The development of a functional-procedural concept of mental deprivation of a human will make it possible, first, to adequately define its essence and content in the scientific dimension as a phenomenon of the psyche; secondly, to assess its impact on the functioning of the whole psyche; third, to disclose the impact on development or its delay, actions, behaviour, and activities of an individual; fourth, to develop psychotherapeutic measures to prevent the occurrence of mental deprivation and eliminate its negative consequences.

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Behavioural Component in the Development of the Moral Culture among Preschool Children

Authors: Saltanat M. Abylaikha, Zhanat A. Karmanova, Ulzhan M. Konkhashova, Maral B. Iskakova, Aikerim Nursulankyzy

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The relevance of the study is defined by the need to identify the current moral level of pre-schoolers, to identify factors that positively and negatively affect the moral culture of the child, as well as to develop a methodological foundation for the effective and controlled development of moral culture, ethical principles and empathy among children of 4-5 years old considering the behavioural component. This study focuses on assessing the real levels of moral and cultural development among children, their systematisation and analysis, and making recommendations for teachers and parents to develop moral qualities in a child. The leading method for studying this problem is an experimental method that enables a comprehensive assessment of the moral culture among preschool children. In addition, methods such as structural analysis, comparative method, statistical method, synthesis and deduction methods, and the method of classification were used in the study. The study presents the results of an experiment to establish the level of development of the behavioural component of moral culture among preschool children, reveals the weaknesses of the development of this component, identifies methods of pedagogical influence on the development of moral culture, and makes recommendations for activities, pedagogical methods, and techniques that can be used to make a predictable positive impact on the moral culture of the child. The study materials are of practical value for teachers of preschool educational institutions, child psychologists, as well as teachers and students of pedagogical programmes, and parents.

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Professional Consciousness as a Subjective Component of a Personal Professional Development

Authors: Svitlana M. Avramchenko, Iryna V. Ievtushenko, Yevheniia M. Kaliuzhna, Viktoriia V. Levchenko, Olena O. Nezhynska

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The study discusses the professional development of the individual, which is a multi-faceted process. The relevance of this work is defined by development trends that radically change the essence of professions on the labour market and require an understanding of the role of career guidance and professional self-determination as a single process throughout the entire working life of an individual. The study aims to investigate professional consciousness as a subjective component of professionalism and consider the algorithm for the development of professional selfconsciousness in society. The study covers the main stages of professional development of the individual as a single process. The analysis of documents (monographs, websites, statistics, academic papers, and textbooks) was the objective method for the study. The study researched and systematised the leading approaches to discovering personal potential based on the collected material and identified all types of professional competence using the analysis method. As a result, the definition of factors of professionalism creates mental models of professional activity and the professional self-consciousness of the individual. The practical value of the study discussed and analysed the stages of development and establishment of a professional individual is implementing the results in the educational process and using the provided recommendations for creating a personal programme for mastering the course on the psychology of personality and professional development

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School Mediation as a Means of Preventing Social Maladjustment of Students from Risk Groups

Authors: Olena V. Belkina-Kovalchuk, Evgeniya A. Durmanenko, Tetyana A. Martyniuk, Victoria V. Petruk, Svitlana Yu. Cherneta

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This research study examines issues related to the prevention of social maladjustment of students from risk groups through the use of school mediation. The relevance of the stated research topic is due to the significant scale of the spread of juvenile delinquency in modern Ukrainian society and the growing popularity of school mediation to resolve and prevent emerging social problems at the school stage. This research study aims to identify and state the main aspects in the impact of the practice of school mediation on the factors that are fundamental in the social adaptation of students from the risk group in the modern realities of Ukrainian society. The leading approach in this scientific research is a combination of analytical and logical methods of researching the issues presented as the main ones in this work. The main results of this research study were: identifying the degree of the positive impact of mediation practice at school on the students’ consciousness in the context of the need for their subsequent social adaptation and stating the fact that this practice is promising in the future to resolve issues of social fitness specifically for students from risk groups in modern social conditions. The applied value of this research work is identifying the prospects for further research of a complex of factors affecting the social situation in Ukraine in the context of the subsequent spread in a society of groups that pose a social danger, and the possibilities of school mediation as a means of preventing the development of such a phenomenon already in the early stages. Subsequent scientific research on the role of school mediation in the context of preventing the development of juvenile delinquency and assessing its effectiveness in preventing the social spread of students at risk will help supplement the existing information picture of research in this area and will become the starting point for an objective analysis of the need to use school mediation as means of preventing the spread of juvenile delinquency in Ukraine.

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The Impact of Immersive and Non-Immersive Virtual Reality Trends in Sensorimotor Recovery of Post-Stroke Patients-A Meta-Analysis

Authors: Jaza Rizvi, Sumaira Imran Farooqui, Abid Khan, Bashir Ahmed Soomro, Batool Hassan

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Virtual Reality (VR) is an approach in stroke rehabilitation with ever-improving technological advancement for targeted motor rehabilitation by providing a user interface in a simulated environment with proprioceptive and visual feedback. This meta-analysis intended to evaluate the impact of immersive and non-immersive VR-based interventions compared to conventional rehabilitation in sensorimotor recovery following stroke. Randomized Controlled Trials based on the impact of VR, either immersive or non-immersive type in comparison to conventional rehabilitation on post-stroke patients (>18 years) sensorimotor recovery were searched on six databases including Google Scholar, PEDro, MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, and Web of Science from August to November 2020. A total of 17 randomized controlled trials on VR based intervention showed significant improvement in sensorimotor recovery following a stroke in overall FMA outcomes in comparison to the control group with pool effects in terms of SMD in a random effect model showed an impact of 0.498 at 95% CI (p<0.001) depicts a moderate effect size. An immersive and non-immersive emerging VR trend appears to be a promising therapeutic tool in sensorimotor recovery following stroke

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COVID-19 and Portuguese Adults with Intellectual Disabilities

Authors: Cristina P. Albuquerque

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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the lives of people all over the world, including in Portugal. This study explores the impact of the pandemic on several life domains of Portuguese adults with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) and their families; identifies the difficulty level in the implementation of the most common preventive measures by adults with ID; addresses the consequences of health authorities’ guidelines in the activities carried out in daycare centers for people with disabilities. A total of thirty-three daycare centers participated; they were attended by a total of 1192 adults at the time the study took place (between the 15th of September 2020 and the 15th of October 2020), and a professional belonging to the daycare center answered an online survey. The results showed that: 1) participants agreed that the pandemic had a negative impact on adults with ID and their families, although only in a percentage of them; 2) in the cases of the adults and families where that negative impact occurred, it was generalized, expressing itself in various life domains; 3) almost all of the preventive measures where considered difficult to apply by adults with ID; 4) the participants agreed that the health authorities' guidelines influenced the activities that were performed in the daycare centers, i.e., there were less activities, and the existing ones were less diversified, more sedentary and occurring indoors more often. The implications of the negative impact of the pandemic on adults with ID, their families, and the services provided have to be addressed.

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Preschool Children’s Speech Pedagogical Sound Culture Correction

Authors: Valentyna Ye. Borova, Liubov V. Artemova, Nataliia I. Melnyk, Valentuna Ye. Benera, Nataliia V. Malinovska

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Objective: The article aims to reveal the features of correction of the sound culture of the preschool-age children's speech, the effectiveness of which has been tested experimentally.Background: The sound culture of speech is a multicomponent formation, which covers the phonetic correctness of speech; general language skills and orthoepic correctness of speech. Pedagogical correction of the sound culture of speech is focused on the correct the errors caused by a violation of the sound articulation, sound pronunciation, orthoepic norms of pronunciation, voice strength, etc.Method: In the study, the author's method of pedagogical correction of the sound culture of children’s speech was used. Also, it was used comparative analysis and method of successive analysis of adjustment variants of the speech sound culture. Results: An individual model of pedagogical correction of the sound culture of the child's speech was developed. Training to deepen knowledge, improvement of abilities, and skills of teachers were held. The exercises in sound pronunciation and intonational speech expressiveness were developed.Conclusion: Positive dynamics of developmental levels of the sound culture of children’s speech, which has been confirmed by the results of quantitative and qualitative analysis, confirms the effectiveness of the experimental methods of pedagogical correction of the sound culture of speech.