STRUCTURE OF PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION CULTURE OF FUTURE PSYCHOLOGISTS AND ITS SCIENTIFIC RATIONALE

Abstract

The article presents a theoretical analysis of scholarly approaches to defining the structure of professional communication culture among specialists in various fields and substantiates an authorial model of the professional communication culture of future psychologists. Contemporary research conceptualizes professional communication culture as a complex, integrative formation that combines personal, behavioral, communicative, ethical, and regulatory components; however, most existing models have been developed without sufficient consideration of the specific nature of psychological practice. The professional communication culture of a psychologist is defined as an integrative personal and professional formation that ensures ethical, effective, and therapeutically appropriate interaction among the psychologist, clients, the professional community, and the broader social environment, in both face-to-face and digital formats of professional activity. The article argues that, in psychology, communication functions not merely as a means of interaction but as a core instrument of professional help, which necessitates a focused examination of the logic underlying its structural organization. Drawing on a synthesis of related theoretical frameworks and the therapeutic nature of psychological interaction, a structured model of the professional communication culture of future psychologists is proposed. This model comprises perceptual-empathic, communicative-linguistic, interactive-behavioral, ethical-deontological, and reflective-regulatory components. It is demonstrated that the proposed structure reflects a coherent progression from processes of professional perception of the client to the organization of interaction, ethical regulation, and conscious monitoring of one’s own communicative actions. The model also accounts for current conditions of psychological practice, including the expansion of digital communication formats, and provides a theoretical foundation for the development of pedagogical conditions, training technologies, and diagnostic tools to assess the formation of a professional communication culture in future psychologists.