Diana Pokhilko
Ph.D. in Psychology, senior researcher.
ORCID 0000-0003-3374-8771
Yanina Ovsiannikova
Ph.D. in Psychology, senior researcher.
ORCID 0000-0001-6498-3454
DOI https://doi.org/10.52363/dcpp-2021.2.6
Keywords: socio-psychological training, mental readiness, motivational component, volitional component, communicative component, moral component.
Despite everything, the issue of readiness of the future rescuer is still relevant, even though a lot of scientists were working on development of the solution. These components of psychological readiness can be represented in 4 basics dependent on each other: motivational, volitional, communicative and moral components. Level of a State Emergency Service specialist’s psychological readiness for extremely dangerous activities depends on sufficient development and expression of basic components of readiness. During the professional training of future rescuers to dangerous activities the specialists of educational and scientific laboratory of extreme and crisis psychology National university of civil defence of Ukraine developed the socio-psychological training: «Extreme psychological training of rescuers for completion of tasks on professional purpose in NS». Program of the training consists of 6 items: «Teamwork» unit; «Adaptation to conditions of emergencies» unit; «Endurance» unit; «Professional fears» unit; «Professional stresses» unit; «Negative mental states: help».
The training program activates the basic components of mental readiness and gives an opportunity to solve the problems with practical skills. During the study it was found that the cadets who took part in training made more right choices to save people and themselves than the cadets who didn’t take part in training. They also were more calm and balanced, demonstrated better concentration and organization, performed the leader function much better, used constructive dialogue to solve conflicts and demonstrated the need for professional self-improvement. It can be said that cadets who took part in training were much better, faster and more confident in solving situational problems than cadets who didn’t take part in the training.