Modern Health Improving Psychotechnologies of a Higher School Teacher’s Personality

Abstract

The article is devoted to a very important problem of contemporary society, the problem
of searching for efficient methods of health improving psycho-technologies of a university
teacher’s personality. The article contains the empirical research results of developing the
key constituents of teachers’ social competence as an integrated personal construct,
representing the system of knowledge about society, capabilities and skills of behavior
accepted in society. The conclusions have been drawn that the component of a person’s
psychological resilience can serve as a psychological quality providing a university
teacher’s personality’s mental and physical health. Besides, a health improving orientation
of a teacher’s personality has been identified that comprises the components of one’s
own health, the needs in self-cognition, self-development, self-improvement of individual
health as a condition of effective self-realization in the field of pedagogical activity. A
social and psychological training course has been offered as the most effective method of
health improving psycho-technologies of a university teacher’s personality (developed for
a target group of people). The materials of the article can be useful to teachers,
psychologists as well as executives of educational institutions of higher and secondary
vocational education.