PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION OF ANTITERRORIST UNITS’ STAFF IN EXTREME SITUATIONS Mariana Khasanovna Shkhagapsoeva, PhD in pedagogics. <...> Place of employment: NorthCaucasus Institute for Advanced Studies. <...> E-mail: marianash@yandex.ru Annotation: The problem of the development of effective communication skills - a key in the modern professionalpsychological preparation of employees of law enforcement bodies. <...> Achieving successful anti-terrorist activities in general is impossible without effective communications between employees of relevant departments. <...> The decision of the anti-terrorist units of the tasks required by employees mastering the basic knowledge and skills in communication management. <...> The aim of this study is to research antiterrorist units’ staПП proПessional communication in tСe aspect of interpersonal communication and offer ways to improve its efficiency in extreme situations. <...> Proceeding from this goal, we set the following tasks: to examine the concepts of communication and communication skills; to identify the main factors influencing the interpersonal communication in an emergency situation; consider the problems of interpersonal communication process, employees of antiterrorist units in an emergency situation and provide basic directions of increase of its efficiency. <...> The study used categorical, subject-object, system approach, the comparative analysis, synthesis and logic synthesis. <...> Using the results of research in the process of professional and psychological preparation will allow to neutralize the negative aspects arising between members of anti-terrorist units to optimize the process of interpersonal communication in extreme situations, and as a consequence, improve the efficiency of anti-terrorist activities. <...> Presented in this paper, theoretical calculations have allowed to clarify the concept of communication skills, highlight interpersonal communication in a special form of professional communications staff antiterrorist units, indicate the main challenges to improve the efficiency of communication. <...> Application to practice recommendations in the process of professional and psychological training of anti-terrorist units, will optimize the process of interpersonal communication in extreme situations, and as a consequence, increase the effectiveness of the work units. <...> The development of employees verbal communication skills will make the process of interpersonal communication more effective and efficient. <...> Karlsson J. The integration of automatic speech recognition into the air traffic control system. <...> Monan W.P. Human factors in air-carrier operations: the hearback problem. <...> Segrin C., Flora J. Poor social skills are a vulnerability factor in the development of psychosocial problems // Human Communication Research Journal. 2003. <...> Wiemann J.M. Explication <...>