PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL EDUCATION OF PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH PSYCHOPHYSICAL DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS AS A FACTOR OF SOCIALIZATION

Abstract

The study addresses the complexity of socializing children with psychophysical developmental disorders, requiring their integration into educational settings and the development of communicative, cognitive, and emotional competencies. The process’s success largely depends on active parental involvement, as parents serve both as carriers of the child’s primary social experience and as intermediaries between the child and institutional structures of education, healthcare, and social protection. Analysis identified key directions of parental education: fostering a positive perception of the child, providing psycho-emotional support, developing socio-pedagogical competence, family social interaction skills, partnership with specialists, preparing the child for social adaptation, modeling social roles, informational and educational support, promoting the child’s agency through parents, overcoming social barriers, organizing a supportive social environment, and developing parents’ communicative competence. Principles include humanistic orientation, psycho-emotional support, partnership, parental and child agency, individualization, systemacity, interdisciplinarity, social-practical focus, openness, and reliance on family experience. Leading methods include consultation, training, and practice-based forms, role modeling and demonstration, case analysis, interactive approaches, individualized educational trajectory support, mediation and communication techniques, and experience exchange among families. The study demonstrates that psycho-pedagogical education of parents is a system-forming condition for socializing children with psychophysical developmental disorders. It promotes coordination between families and specialists, reduces the risk of maladaptation, and facilitates children’s inclusion in educational and social spaces, which is especially vital amid current social and crisis challenges.