PSYCHOLOGICAL WORK WITH THE CONSEQUENCES OF MENTAL TRAUMATIZATION OF SECURITY AND DEFENSE SECTOR PERSONNEL

Abstract

The article is devoted to the discussion of the problem of psychological support of the consequences of mental traumatization of personnel of the security and defense sector of Ukraine. The role and tasks of a specialist psychologist in the step-by-step process of psychological support for experiencing psychotrauma are determined. The psychological resources of experiencing mental trauma are outlined. The principles of psychological assistance in connection with the mechanisms of development of mental trauma are formulated (psychoeducation; training in mental state regulation techniques; work with bodily images of trauma; restoration of bodily experience models disrupted by trauma; work with restoration of the timeline). The practice of psychological work with the consequences of mental traumatization of National Guard of Ukraine military personnel within the main areas of psychological support has been systematized. It is shown that psycho-training work is carried out within the defined areas of psychological work (on the correction of unfavorable accentuations of character; development of professionally important qualities; creation of a team, cohesion and mutual support; restoration of psychological safety of the individual; formation of psychological readiness of personnel; formation of motivational resources of vitality, strategies for overcoming stressful situations, etc. It was determined that programs of individual and group crisis counseling were developed at National Guard of Ukraine; counseling in the direction of optimizing the motivational resource of military personnel's stress resistance; training of personnel in the skills of psychological first aid and self-help; training of personnel in self-regulation methods; psychocorrective work with military personnel in the directions of a group of strengthened psychological attention, etc. It is noted that in the direction of professional and psychological training of personnel, scientific and methodological support has been implemented: conducting psychological debriefings; simulation of combat conditions, combat stress factors during the passage of the psychological strip of simulation of combat conditions; psychological information about the peculiarities of extreme situations; reproduction of psychological factors of an extreme situation during training. It is indicated that psychological rehabilitation and decompression measures have been developed at National Guard of Ukraine; psychological prevention of addictive behavior; psychological support of post-traumatic growth of personnel; psychological work with servicemen who are in hospitals. Problematic and debatable issues of psychological work with the consequences of mental traumatization of personnel at the current stage are outlined.