Communicative Competence Peculiarities of Future Socionomic Specialists

Purpose. To examine theoretically communicative competence features of future specialists of socionomic professions. Materials and methods of research. Methodological ground of the study is the competence approach, in particular, communicative competence. The achievement of the goals set in the work was carried out on the basis of theoretical and methodological analysis, systematization and generalization of the scholarly literature directly relevant to the research problems. Research results. The research found that the communicative competence is a phenomenon which includes knowledge about the rules of communication and natural processes of communication. It was revealed that such factors as higher nervous activity, interests, needs, specialist abilities, professional environment, and social experience can affect the level of communicative competence. In addition to that, its formation can occur both spontaneously, and via focused educational influence. Communicative competence is proved to be an integral component of the socionomic profession professiogram helping specialists to communicate with customers. Further application of the obtained results. The results of the study can be applied in the field of higher education to train specialists of socionomic professions.