State of the Actual Development of Discursive Competence in Psychology Bachelors

The article reveals the results of psycholinguistic diagnostics of the professional (psychotherapeutic) speech of bachelors in psychology, who have entered the 1-st course of magistracy on a specialty 053 Psychology. The subject of analysis was the discourses produced by undergraduates. The main methods used in observing discourses aimed at helping the clients to solve their psychological problems were the discourse analysis, content analysis, etc. The data obtained as a result of the analysis of psychotherapeutic and psycho-counseling discourses testify to the multilevel state of the actual development of discursive competence in future masters of psychology, as well as the uneven development of individual discursive operations, which is an indicator of professionally-oriented discursive competence