Impact of Psychological Training on the Development of Professionally Important Qualities of an Educational Psychologist

The experimental study aims to investigate the impact of specially organized psychological training on the professional sensitivity of educational psychologists in perceiving and assessing the personal and behavioral features of schoolchildren.The study utilizes a mixed approach including an analytical and theoretical review of psychological and pedagogical literature and an experiment with educational psychologists from Kazakh schools.The authors employ various psychological tools and assessment methods, including tests to evaluate social intelligence, emotional intelligence, and professional qualities, followed by statistical analysis to assess changes in professional sensitivity.The theoretical analysis discloses the relationship between the improvement of professional sensitivity of an educational psychologist in the perception and assessment of a school student's personality and behavioral characteristics and the specially organized psychological training designed to promote the successful development of professional sensitivity in educational psychologists.Based on the analysis of theoretical provisions regarding the development of professional sensitivity of educational psychologists, the authors clarify the essence of the term "professional sensitivity of an educational psychologist".This theoretical approach serves as a basis to substantiate the process of improvement of the professional sensitivity of an educational psychologist to the perception and assessment of a school student's personality and behavioral characteristics.The study substantiates the provision that specially organized psychological training contributes to the successful development of professional sensitivity in educational psychologists.Experimental findings show a significant improvement in educational psychologists' professional sensitivity after the training.The experimental group demonstrates a marked increase in the indicators of social intelligence (+21.7 %), emotional