Strategy to form the psycho-pedagogical counseling competence in the Pedagogy-Psychology professional in initial training

Abstract

The formation of psycho-pedagogical counseling as a competence in the initial training of the Pedagogy-Psychology professional constitutes a social need, inasmuch as it surpasses the formation of this as a skill or mode of action. It is conceived from and for professional performance, as a concretion of what the professional intervention knows and needs, in a process from dependence to independence in practice. In this sense, the objective of this article is to socialize a pedagogical strategy for the formation of the psycho-pedagogical counseling competence from the internalization of its constitutive elements, its externalization in practice and the evaluative reflection of what it needed, applied and needs to transform in the formation for its efficiency. The scientific research methods used: analysis-synthesis, inductive-deductive and modeling; all of them of theoretical character and document analysis, observation, survey and specialists' criteria; of empirical character; demonstrated the scientific value, viability and feasibility of the strategy. The strategy, as a novel element, shows the new understanding of the formation of psycho-pedagogical counseling as a competence of the Pedagogy-Psychology professional in initial training and its contribution to reach agile professionals, prepared for change, useful in the management and solution of the conflicts that derive from it in the basic labor entities. It favors the awareness of the actions in the formation of the psycho-pedagogical counseling competence and stimulates the transit to higher stages.