Andriy Bespalko
Postgraduate Student. Military Institute of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
ORCID 0000-0002-7941-9909
Oleksandr Safin
Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Professor. Military Institute of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
ORCID 0000-0001-5745-8635
DOI - https://doi.org/10.52363/dcpp-2021.1.4
Keywords: psychological decompression; initial recovery; coping resources; participants in hostilities; negative consequences; psychogenic factors; combat situation; social readaptation; military man.
The article is devoted to the consideration of decompression as a system of initial recovery of coping resources of combatants from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is noted that ensuring an organized and structured transition between the completion of a military operation and a return to normal (peaceful) conditions of military service is an important component of psychological and social support for personnel. The first stage of the system of psychological recovery, readaptation of servicemen to peaceful conditions of activity is psychological decompression. Psychological decompression is a system of primary measures aimed at preventing psychophysiological trauma, gradual return to a peaceful life, the initial stage of personality readaptation. The purpose of psychological decompression is to achieve "gradual reduction of pressure" or "release", during which a combined program of rest, relaxation and psychological education can be implemented. Timely, high-quality and full implementation of psychological decompression measures allows to qualitatively reduce the level of negative consequences of the influence of psychogenic factors of the combat situation, contributes to the successful social readaptation of servicemen and contributes to the acquisition of positive experience in both subjects and objects of this process, the formation of participants' qualities that will increase the level of professional readiness in the future. All this allows us to consider psychological decompression as the main primary means of social readaptation of servicemen upon completion of participation in the Joint Forces Operation zone.