Training of Specialists of Helping Professions in the Republic of Kazakhstan

In the article the features of the update of the content of higher social education are shown. An important innovation in teaching the subject “Self-knowledge” is to use 4 “T-s” - trust, tradition, transparency, tolerance. The program of the discipline “Self-knowledge” is based on competence approach, where such competences as general, special, instrumental, interpersonal and systemic are allocated. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n2s4p11