44towards pedagogical activity; self-realization, pedagogical activity. Recently the issue of creativity has been the subject of researches of many specialists in various fields of Psychology. The works of scientists studying the psychological mechanisms of creativity (L. Vygotsky, N. Guzii, V. Eliseev, I. Kogan, V. Moliako, Ya. Ponomarev, S. Rubinstein and others) have been reviewed. The problems of young teachers' creativity in the psychological and pedagogical aspects have been described. It has been stated that the creative process involves going beyond that is directly deduced from the existing theoretical claims and concrete experience. Besides, the results of the survey concerning the issue of creativity have been presented, in which 120 teachers of secondary schools of Poltava and Poltava region have taken part. As a result of the survey it has been found that a large number of respondents believe that the basis of the creative process is empathy, creativity, self-dependence, and perseverance.The paper presents the results of the empirical study conducted with the aim of determining the level of emotional burnout among students-psychologists and professional psychologists. Harmful effect of emotional burnout syndrome on human health is described. The study has shown that 30% of professional psychologists demonstrated high level of emotional burnout and among 30% of them the level of emotional burnout was higher than average. As for studentspsychologists, 10% of them are characterized by high level of emotional burnout.

Self-development is one of the structural components in the competitiveness model of the student’s as prospective specialists. Linguistic and psychological bases are one of the most important elements of self-management, indication of competitiveness and the self-evaluation process as well. The aim of the research was to analyze and evaluate the effective practices of the implementation of “Portfolio” technology. Portfolio is one of the pedagogical tools for facilitation of self-development of competitiveness of prospective specialists in the study environment at university.