EXPERIENCE OF PSYCHOPRACTICAL SUPPORT OF PROFESSIONAL RESOCIALIZATION AND POST-TRAUMATIC DEVELOPMENT OF VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS

Abstract

Relevance. The purpose of the article is to identify the features and basic principles of creating evidence-based psychological practice of work with veterans of the Russian-Ukrainian war and their family members within the framework of the “Veteran's House” project, focused on their successful readaptation to civilian life, professional resocialization and support for the post-traumatic development of such individuals.

Methodology. The methodology of working with veterans is based on the post-non-classical paradigm of acmeological personality development, which is focused on the post-traumatic development of such individuals in group work on the basis of subject-subject relationships between the psychologist and clients and the creation of psychopractical conditions for the rethinking by veterans and their family environment of the traumatic experience of demobilized soldiers and the emergence of new life meanings associated with their professional resocialization and personal growth.

Results. In the implementation of the author's project Veteran's House in work with veterans and their family members, a comprehensive approach was implemented that provides a combination of educational (master's degree in psychology) and psychopractical components of their professional resocialization. The key content of psychopractical support is practices oriented towards post-traumatic growth of project participants, namely: strengthening the Ego-potential of veterans, organizing their ecological rethinking of the traumatic experience of war events through group work and the emergence of new meanings of life associated with acquiring a new profession of psychologist, which creates conditions for positive personal transformations of all program participants. The experience of implementing the author's project Veteran's House on the basis of the Faculty of Psychology and the Center for Veteran Development of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, focused on the psychological preparation of demobilized war participants and their family members for future work with fellow soldiers, testifies to the promising orientation towards the post-non-classical methodology of practical work, in particular, the use of the principles of acmeological personality development, and also requires special attention to the resilience potential of psychologists who carry out such work.