psychological, socio-pedagogical, legal, economic,
medical (Order of the Ministry of Education and
Science of Ukraine № 557 of 24.04.2019).
Despite the presence of diverse Ukrainian
scientific work on determining the essence of
tolerance and the features of manifestations, there is
one issue that requires further, thorough study. The
problem of identifying the state of tolerance in future
social workers to professional activities.
Criteria and indicators of formed tolerance as a
prerequisite for the manifestation of the tolerant
attitude of students to recipients of social services.
We are convinced that the basis of the successful
activity of a social worker is professional maturity
with the formed personal potential of tolerance. The
content of this is realized through manifestations of
behavior - external (so-called external tolerance is
accompanied by balanced behavior, belief in the
existence of an opinion, position other than the
understanding of the specialist, the ability to consider
facts and phenomena from different angles, taking
into account various factors); internal (so-called
internal tolerance - the ability to make informed
decisions and reason about the problem, even if all the
facts and possible consequences are unknown)
(Orlovskaya, 2012).
The fact of belonging (origin) of tolerance is
important, its types have certain characteristics. Thus,
there is natural tolerance (direct openness, curiosity,
children's trust of an adult), moral (tolerance, the use
of psychological protection mechanisms to suppress
negative emotions); ethical (perception and trust,
empathic feeling of another person) (Lipatov, 2008).
Tolerance is realized in the process of
communicative interaction of a social worker with a
child with special needs; requires from the adult a
positive attitude, open mind, empathy towards the
state, and values of the child.
According to K. Rogers, giving the adult the role
of facilitator and his sincerity, openness and empathy,
understanding, and acceptance of the child, will
ensure cooperation based on trust. Thus, I. Trifonova
identifies seven types of "attitude to children", which
we have grouped into three subgroups:
first: with a high level of awareness of the values,
uniqueness of the child, taking into account its
individual characteristics; positive behavioral-verbal
ways and communicative ways of interaction
(cognitive, cognitive-emotional);
second: with a high level of recognition of the
value of the child and the ability to inspire confidence
in children, the ability to adequately assess the
reaction of children; insufficiently being aware of
physiological, age features; unable to control their
emotional state (cognitive-behavioral, emotional,
conative (behavioral));
third: able to control the child's attention, establish
contact, exert a suggestive and stimulating effect;
however, difficulties in the field of interpersonal
interaction, inability to properly assess the position
and personality traits of the child (Voloshina, 2007).
Achieving mutual understanding between an adult
and a child is possible under the conditions of partner-
subject interaction. It seems reasonable to assume that
the idea of norms of behavior in interpersonal
interaction depends on certain personal qualities, in
particular - tolerance. Especially when it comes to
tolerant interaction of the future social worker with
children with special educational, physical and
psychological needs (Todortseva, 2004).
Thus, tolerance is an important condition for
communication, a source of positive emotional states
and a motive for subject-to-subject interaction.
There are different scientific views on the levels
of communicative tolerance, each of which is
characterized by certain characteristics, in particular:
moral (patience, tolerance, respect, empathy,
kindness, communication/ communicativeness);
personal (personality stability, divergence of
thinking, mobility of behavior, social activity)
(Orlovskaya, 2012; Todortseva, 2004);
sufficient level of culture and education,
development of thinking (Griva, 2007);
high, medium, low (Voloshina, 2007); etc.
The criteria of tolerance of Ukrainian researchers
correspond to the psychological triad: "emotion -
cognition - behavior as a consistent process."
According to the criteria, we chose the following
indicators of tolerance:
- a manifestation of respect, friendliness, and
tolerance towards people, the establishment of equal
relations, focused on mutual trust, interest, desire for
mutual understanding (criterion of mutual respect);
- understanding of human differences, recognition
of the right to individuality, lack of desire to re-
educate the partner in accordance with their own
ideas about the "right" interaction (criterion of mutual
understanding);
- restraint in the face of negative manifestations of
disrespect (arrogance, rudeness, contempt, cruelty),
the ability to find common ground for discussion with
different people in different situations; ability to listen
to the partner; treat the interlocutor as an equal
participant in the dialogue (criterion of restraint);
- the ability to forgive mistakes, manifestations of
unintentional rudeness; lack of aggression towards
others; high adaptability; ability to adapt to the habits