Psychological and Social Factors of Adaptation of the Gifted Personality in the Conditions of the Informational Educational Environment of General Secondary Education Establishments : Methodical Manual The manual outlines the features of the informational educational environment of educational institutions in modern times. The functions of informational environment of modern general secondary education institutions are singled out. The authors investigate social and psychological factors, as well as personal characteristics that affect the process of adaptation of gifted students in different periods of study, which coincide with crisis periods of psychological development — entry into school, adolescence, and early adolescence. The special workshop provided in the manual helps to increase the level of social and psychological adaptability of gifted students of general secondary education institutions and is a ready-made toolkit with a synopsis of practice-oriented classes. The manual is intended for students and teachers, social educators, practical psychologists, and heads of general secondary education institutions.

Objective: The purpose of this article is to substantiate the psychological conditions that determine the content, forms, ways of organising, and promoting the process of socialisation of gifted students. Background: The success of modern man largely depends on his socialisation – the ability to see and understand others, analyse the course of events, to capture the prospects for development. Therefore, the key competencies include, among others, information and communication and social as those that ensure the successful acquisition of knowledge throughout life and entry into society. Method: A set of methods was used in the study: analysis, synthesis, generalisation, and systematisation of scientific data, observations, questionnaires, document analysis, methods of mathematical data processing. An online testing platform was developed to conduct a survey of students. Results: The authors proposed and implemented a project aimed at providing psychological and pedagogical support to gifted students; to provide the teaching staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to work with gifted children, to encourage participants in the educational process to use information and communications technology tools in educational activities. A model of psychological support and accompaniment of participants in the educational process has been developed. Conclusion: The experiment showed positive changes in socialisation in the experimental group in relation to the control group at a significant level. The findings of the study give grounds to conclude that the proposed author's comprehensive approach promotes the socialisation of gifted students.

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The manual presents the theoretical and methodological foundations of social adaptation in the works of Ukrainian and foreign scientists; the tendencies of childhood research in the modern global society are analyzed; the essence and structure of the concept of adaptation are considered. The authors investigated the peculiarities of the process of adaptation of a gifted person at different age periods of study in general secondary education, namely: primary school children, gifted adolescents, and gifted students of specialized classes. The authors also proposed a theoretical model of the organization of socio-psychological adaptation in the information and educational environment of the educational institution to ensure maximum realization of the potential of each student. The manual is intended for students and teachers, practical psychologists, social educators, heads of education and psychological services

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