Self-control in contact as psychologists and teachers depersonalization overcoming factor

The professions of psychologist and teacher are a type of a person-topersonprofession. The dominant type of their activities is based on contact, thus emphasizing the importance of high level communicationskills. One of the dominant formants of the future psychologists' and teachers' training is forming and mastering a high level of self-control as itis a factor of professional depersonalisation overcoming. Depersonalisation is an element of person's professional deformation, deforming therelations with other people: increasing one's dependencies from others, or increasing negativism, cynicisms of the attitudes and feelings towardsthe recipients (patient, client, subordinated, colleague and others); or indifferent and even negative attitude to people-clients (contacts with people become formal, depersonalised; negative emotions first hidden can result in conflicts; similar conditions exist in closed workgroups, forcedto cooperate in close contact for a long time (up to 6 months)); change the attitude either to the client, or to oneself; one of the components of a2-dimension model of the burnout syndrome. Depersonalisation as a type of professional deformation should not be identified with its definitionin psychology in general and in clinical psychology in particular. The understanding of the self-control in contact phenomenon as a factor ofspecialists' depersonalisation overcoming was broadened. The features of self-control in contact were revealed: high level of the "adult" positionin contact and skills to present information; the level above the average of using the synergic communication style, motivated negativism injudgements about people, listening and perceiving of the speaker, style of the contact. Higher school professors are informed about the need ofthe psychological correction of future psychologists' and teachers' average level of grumbling, emotional tension in situations of communication,disguised cruelty in attitudes to people, in judgements about them, communication skills, self-control in contact; of first negative experienceof the contact with people around, open cruelty in relations with people.

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