POSITIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY IN THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT OF TEACHERS: RESTORATION OF THE INTEGRITY OF THE PERSONALITY

Abstract

This article highlights the outcomes of applied research on " Psychological support of the professional activity of pedagogical workers in the conditions of global changes " conducted at the Ivan Zyazyun Institute of Pedagogical Education and Adult Education of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The study aimed to recognize signs of individual integrity breaches and determine methods to restore it. The research problem regarding morale restoration in psychological support is challenging to investigate, so the study employed experimental work, diagnostic interviews, observations, and self-assessment methods. Various instruments and techniques, such as hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS), anxiety scale (HARS), depression scale (BDI), Wiesbaden questionnaire WIPPF, among others were utilized. The primary outcomes of the research reveal that a vast majority of the participants manifest indications of breaching their personality's moral integrity. Hence, there is a pressing need to not only prevent and overcome depression, anxiety, and panic attacks due to wars' aftermath relied on the subjects but as well as to rehabilitate one's moral integrity through positive psychotherapy means.The practical significance of the study is determined by the applied aspect of its results in relation to ensuring that pedagogical workers preserve the integrity of the individual and health; decrease in general emotional load; increasing the resourcefulness of the individual.The results of the research are taken into account and used: in complex psychotherapeutic work in the methods of positive psychotherapy and hypnotherapy; group training in the techniques of mental self-regulation, psychological self-help, and can also be useful for workers in helping professions in working with people affected by the war.