Formation of Collaborative Skills of Adolescents who have Functional Disorders

One of the main prerequisites of successful social development is collaborative skills. Study focuses on adolescents with functional disorders, whose collaborative skills are underdeveloped. There has been raised the issue on how to promote the development of those skills within boarding school educational process, applying a project method to encourage adolescents with functional disorders to use the obtained knowledge and skills in practice, to understand the significance of process, to take an active role in problem-solving process, and gain to positive experience of cooperation. The research was conducted in Latvia, in two boarding schools. Results have been processed in SPSS and AQUAD 6 environment. It is concluded that the usage of the project method while working with adolescents with functional disorders provides an individual and differentiated approach and the opportunity to work at all cognitive levels and to participate in problem-solving and decision-making processes thus promoting active living position and developing collaborative skills in boarding school conditions.