TRAINING AS AN EFFECTIVE METHOD OF OVERCOMING AGGRESSIVENESS IN MILITARY PERSONNEL

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of training as an effective method of overcoming aggression in military personnel, which is especially relevant in the conditions of a shortage of empirically substantiated methods of influence in psychological practice. It is substantiated that psychological training is the most appropriate and integrative method capable of covering all necessary aspects of work.
The central goal is to develop the ability of a soldier to satisfy his own needs in a socially acceptable way, adapted to the conditions of military service. This is achieved through personality-oriented development, which involves: changing internal dispositions (value systems and meanings), improving self-esteem and positivity of the self-concept, forming an effective system of self-regulation and strong-willed qualities.
The military specificity is emphasized: the task of training work is not to reduce aggression in general, but to activate controlled combat aggression, necessary for the performance of combat missions, with the simultaneous actualization of prosocial orientation.
Effective intervention has a two-level nature: it simultaneously covers individual and group work. Training, as the leading group form of work, is the optimal tool for simultaneous prevention and correction of aggressive manifestations, since it allows covering three main areas: cognitive (awareness of the causes, rational psychotherapy), emotional (reduction of anxiety, relaxation, emotional support), behavioral (correction of reactions, acquisition of social skills through role-playing).
It was determined that group training (social-psychological, correctional) is the most effective, since it integrates various methods and techniques (art therapy, psychoeducation, self-control). Special attention is paid to the use of training formats in the context of psychological decompression after removal from the combat zone for the successful social readaptation of servicemen.
A general scheme of training work on overcoming aggressiveness of servicemen is proposed.