ROLE OF A SOCIAL TEACHER AS THE SUBJECT in PREVENTION OF ADOLESCENTS’ DEVIANT BEHAVIOR
The article deals with the problem regarding preventive and social-pedagogical activities of a social teacher in an educational institution, finding ways to reduce deviant behavior among adolescents and increase the efficiency of preventive measures aimed at putting deviant behavior under social control. The levels of deviating behavior formation among adolescents are revealed; the areas of the work for a social teacher as the subject in the process of the deviant behavior prevention among adolescents are determined; methodological recommendations for the work of a social teacher to prevent deviant behavior in children are proposed. Рrevention is a set of specific socio-pedagogical measures implemented to prevent deviant behavior, decrease deviant patterns of behavior, up to its complete eradication by identifying and eliminating the causes and conditions that facilitate deviant behavior. The proposed recommendations and areas of work will allow achieving high assessment and standards for social and educational activities of a social teacher as the subject in prevention of adolescents’ deviant behavior.