Topical Areas of Psychosocial Work with Participants of Operations: Foreign Experience
Abstract
The article is devoted to considering the foreign experience in psychosocial work with participants of hostilities and the possibilities of its application in domestic practice. The methodology of the article made up the scientific concept of stress study and prevention of adverse effects. The role of psychosocial work with people affected by armed conflict. Main models of psychosocial work with combatants that are used abroad. Depending on this determined the negative effects to the individual of participation in armed conflict, and the role of psychological support after rehabilitation and re-socialization. Considered the international programmes provision of comprehensive psychosocial assistance, the components of which are recognized as effective. Analyzed legal documents, bills, experience of international organizations on the issues of organization and implementation of overseas aid to the victims of the armed conflict, combatants and members of their families. The features of diagnosis, prevention and correction of traumatic and post-traumatic stress disorders. Scientific novelty of the article is that based on the analysis of foreign experience, identified a number of practical recommendations that can be effective in the Ukrainian psychologists. Psychological help addressed to the combatants and other victims in a situation of socio-political crisis in the country, with the aim of overcoming stress and preventing the long-term effects and consequences of post-traumatic symptoms. Effectiveness of approaches used in organizing psychosocial support combatants, their families and veterans of war. The role of training to extreme conditions which is implemented in the framework of the basic training officers. Foreign experience shows that in working with combatants and their families, it is necessary to use an integrated approach, to stimulate in the military awareness of the needs for mental health care for the successful pursuit of their professional duties. The directions of psychosocial work from foreign experience, which have been tested by practice and time, require the study of the effectiveness of their application in domestic conditions, which determines the prospects for further research in this field.
Downloads
Abstract views: 374 PDF Downloads: 1074
- Authors reserve the right to authorship of their own work and transfer to the magazine the right of the first publication of this work under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows other persons to freely distribute published work with mandatory reference to authors of the original work and the first publication of an article in this magazine.
- Authors have the right to enter into separate additional agreements on non-exclusive dissemination of the work in the form in which it was published in the journal (for example, to post an article in the institution's repository or to publish as part of a monograph), provided that the link to the first publication of the work in this journal is maintained.
- The journal's policy allows and encourages the posting of articles by authors on the Internet (for example, in electronic storehouses of institutions or on personal websites), both before the submission of this manuscript to the editorial office and during its editorial processing, as this contributes to the creation of a productive scientific discussion and positively affects the efficiency and dynamics of citing the published work.
