RISK GROUP CHILDREN: CHARACTERISTICS OF THEIR SOCIAL-PEDAGOGICAL COUNSELLING

Social-pedagogical counselling is one of the key forms of social-pedagogical assistance. In dealing with the issues of quality educational assistance, the characteristics of pedagogical and psychological counselling and the problems of schoolchildren’s training and learning difficulties at different age stages are most frequently discussed. However, the characteristics of social-pedagogical counselling in the solution of other than learning social-pedagogical problems of risk group children receive insufficient attention. On the basis of the qualitative research outcomes, the article discloses the characteristics of the social-pedagogical counselling of risk-group children. The summary of the theoretical and empiric research proves that pedagogues and social pedagogues identify partly limited opportunities of social-pedagogical counselling when addressing the problems of risk group children. KEYWORDS: counselling, social-pedagogical counselling, risk group children.