ESTABLISHMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICE IN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM OF DNIPROPETROVSK REGION: HISTORICAL AND LEGAL ASPECT

Decentralization in education management, empowerment of united territorial communities to influence the educational process encourage psychological professionals to significantly reconsider organizational forms, scientific and methodological support, content and directions of their work on psychological and socio-pedagogical support of all participants in the educational process. The effectiveness and efficiency of educational reforms largely depends on the effectiveness of their psychological support because it is the psychological service has the ability to determine the levels and characteristics of individual development of students and use effective tools to correct the content and directions of this development in the educational process. It is also important to understand that the Concept of the New Ukrainian School defines personally oriented education and upbringing as one of the state priorities in education, which requires the psychologization of the educational process by increasing the psychological competence of the administration, teachers, and parents. A significant role in solving this task belongs to the psychological service of the education system. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, there is a positive trend in its development. It is also important to understand that the Concept of the New Ukrainian School defines personally oriented education and upbringing as one of the state priorities in education, which requires the psychologization of the educational process by increasing the psychological competence of the administration, teachers, and parents. A significant role in solving this task belongs to the psychological service of the education system. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, there is a positive trend in its development. The article considers the peculiarities of the formation and development of psychological services in the education system of Dnipropetrovsk region. The historical and legal aspect of the formation of the structure, organization, system, basic regulations governing the activities of the psychological service in the education system of Dnipropetrovsk region is highlighted. The analysis of the historical formation of the psychological service of the education system of Dnipropetrovsk region and the characteristics of the main conceptual and methodological approaches to the idea of a holistic study of the child’s personality and patterns of its development at each stage of formation. Describing the current state of development of the regional psychological service, the author highlights a number of major trends and suggests ways to further develop and improve the psychological service of education in Dnipropetrovsk region based on understanding it as a single system that provides psychological support of the educational process. The study allowed to determine the stages of formation and prospects for the development of psychological services of educational institutionsof Dnipropetrovsk region in the current conditions of their reform; emphasize the need to develop psychological services as a tool for qualitative change in the education system.