PSYCHOREHABILITATION OF COMBAT PARTICIPANTS AS SECOND-LEVEL PSYCHOLOGICAL AID IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The article highlights a topic that is currently very relevant for Ukrainian society in general, and for the psychological community in particular – psycho-rehabilitation of combatants of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Emphasis is placed on numerous facts and factors, which in their totality create a unique architecture of the national experience, because the extremely difficult conditions of the war have a large-scale impact on the Defenders, so the mental response has features that have not yet been described. According to the author, the psychorehabilitation process differs from psychological first aid and crisis counseling, because it involves a certain organic, integral, consistent work with the recipient of psychological services, has its own goals and objectives, and requires a certain amount of time and resources. Therefore, it is considered a justified step to focus attention on the structure, to single out specific blocks, to systematize various methods and techniques that make up the content of psychological services that can be provided to combatants. Clarity, transparency, logic, comprehensibility of the psycho-rehabilitation process, which can be embodied with the help of a psycho-rehabilitation plan, will certainly create more comfortable conditions both for rehabilitators and for practical, clinical psychologists, psychotherapists who actually work with people in the offices of rehabilitation centers, hospitals, offices. Changes in the legislation that regulates the procedure for providing psychological assistance to veterans and categories of persons equivalent to them, which took place at the end of 2023 and are recorded in the article, also require the attention of the psychological community.