Forming the Personality of a Psychologist in Service Activities: Professionally Important Qualities and Job Functions

The article shows that in the post-Soviet period, both in civilian educational institutions and in departmental universities of law enforcement agencies, there is no relevant experience in training students in the specialty of “Psychologist in service activities”. Based on the experience of training military psychologists-ergonomists of the Soviet period, the author gives a model for implementing generalized labour functions in preparing the personality of a psychologist in service activities. A list of basic academic disciplines and practices for the performance of such job functions as professional psychological selection and admission to activities in particular conditions for performing special tasks is proposed. The paper considers a psychodiagnostic toolkit used in domestic psychological and ergonomic practice, which is applied in the process of forming and correcting professionally important qualities of a psychologist of law enforcement agencies in preparation for the performance of work actions in accordance with the professional standard.