PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSISTANCE FOR MILITARY SERVICEMEN WITH POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of psychological assistance to military personnel who have experienced prolonged combat stress, have acquired traumatic experience and have post-traumatic stress disorder. This condition is interpreted as a mental disorder arising as a result of the military personnel’s experience of psychotraumatic events caused by combat operations. It is manifested throught pathological memories, obsessive return to what was experienced in the war, sleep disturbance, excessive emotional excitability, inadequate readiness to resist, hypersensitivity in the situation of expectation of new extreme conditions. The results of an empirical study are presented, according to which post-traumatic stress disorders were observed in military personnel who were in the combat zone. The negative dynamics of the development of the emotional and cognitive sphere are noted, which is reflected in behavior and a tendency to deviations and aggression. The problem of providing comprehensive professional assistance is actualized, with psychological assistance occuping a prominent role. According to the authors' vision, it should be focused on correcting the social and psychological competence of military personnel, solving their personal problems and problems of interaction with the surrounding world and people around them. Educational, holistic, social and  therapeutic directions of psychological assistance to persons with post-traumatic stress disorder are considered. Attention is focused on the psychological and axiological approach as a methodological basis for developing a system of work with military personnel with long-term consequences of post-traumatic stress disorder. Their value-semantic perception of reality opens up possibilities for self-acceptance, acceptance of other people, and establishing interactions with the surrounding world, with themselves and people around them. Prospects for studying the conditions for the deployment of personal and semantic activity of military personnel, their productivity in various types of activity are outlined