БОЙОВИЙ СТРЕС ТА ШЛЯХИ ПОДОЛАННЯ ЙОГО ПСИХОТРАВМУЮЧИХ НАСЛІДКІВ

Abstract

The conflict in the East of Ukraine and its large-scale psycho traumatic effects made it necessary to examine in-depth the combat stress phenomenon. The need to increase the serviceman resilience to the combat actions caused the scientific research on the development of the effective coping-strategies of the destructive effect of stressors overcoming. The objective of the article is the theoretical investigation of the “combat stress” concept, its main substantive elements and the formulation of theoretical conceptual synthesis as for the determination of the key coping-strategies to overcome the combat psycho traumatic effects on the personnel. Based on the results of the theoretical studies the combat stress is determined as the process of the combat situation factors influence on the human psyche. It causes the substantial changes in the cognitive, affective, emotional and behavioral spheres of the servicemen, it significantly influence on the effectiveness of their professional activity and depends on the individual and typological, individual and psychological, situational and environmental, social and political, social and psychological factors.The author identified the main coping-resourses and basic coping-strategies of the psycho traumatic effects of the combat stress overcoming. She pointed out the necessity of the examining of the psychological aspects of the stressors impact on the person that will make it possible to predict the behavior of the serviceman in the extreme circumstances, cause the appropriate response on the situational changes, become the prerequisite to maintain the psychological health, and in the case of the exorbitant psycho traumatic damage will contribute to the faster rehabilitation without the chronic pathological consequences.The article substantiates the feasibility of the further in-depth study of the combat stress, the development of the effective strategies and the robust practical methodologies of its destructive effects overcoming. The author identifies that one of the perspective directions is the searching for new approaches as for the development of the personal resilience to the stressors as the integrated feature, that provides person’s optimal functioning in the complicated emotional, extreme and combat conditions and gives the opportunity to develop the harmonious personality with the high level of resilience, ready for the self-improvement, self-control and effective self-regulation. The article gives the reason to the necessity of the comprehensive program for the highly professional military psychological training development that will act as a prerequisite for the reducing the number of the psycho traumas and as a precondition of the maintaining the psychological health of the serviceman as well as the recourse for his or her personal development. The program will include activities to increase the servicemen resilience to stress and the methodology for them to master the ways for the self-regulation and the psychological self-correction of their physiological and emotional state as well as the use of the preventive measures in order to maintain the psychological health during the preparation for the professional activity in the contemporary combat conditions.