Applying language Competences when working with Ukrainian Refugees in helping Professions

The topic of linguistic competence and its practical, creative and, above all, effective application in practice is an extremely important one. It becomes a particularly important and sensitive topic in helping professions, where language needs to be handled with the utmost precision, efficiency and appropriateness. Among the basic premises of the conducted research, we rank a number of factors that influence and shape the communication and understanding process itself. The most important factors that constitute the research starting points are: the effectiveness of communication, which represents the degree of understanding and the ability to communicate with each other; the barriers and communication challenges that cause difficulties in communication or make it impossible, and these barriers need to be overcome in order to provide assistance in an effective way; cultural sensitivity, which refers to the degree of work sensitivity that occurs in multicultural communication, taking into account the cultural differences of environments; education and professional development, which highlight and reflect the need for language competence and foreign language teaching for flexible communication and language competence management in professional life.