Psyhological support of participants of educational process in overcoming of traumatic experience associated with the anti-terrorist operation in the eastern part of Ukraine

Abstract

The paper overviews the issues of psychological assistance providing to participants of educational process by means of psychological support. Much attention has been paid to the possibility of establishing of mechanisms of effective socialisation of children, adolescents, and students: (i) who had witnessed military events in the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) area, (II) who had migrated from the ATO area, (iii) whose parents performed their military and civic duty in the ATO area. The conducted theoretical analysis of the problem of psychological trauma experienced by children, adolescents, and the student youth (all subjected to psychological trauma) has demonstrated that these categories experience violations in the emotional-volitional sphere, cognitive sphere, and behavioural sphere. At the same time, specific peculiarities of children’s reactions to stress and the course of psycho-trauma are noted. Psychological assistance provided to the participants of educational process, who have suffered from traumatic events related to the antiterrorist operation in the eastern part of Ukraine, as well as effective work on overcoming of psychological trauma consequences is possible only within the integrated approach. The integrated approach combines different methods of psychological support: reducing of the level of anxiety and fear in children and adults by means of increasing the level of psychological culture and psycho-hygiene; adaptation to new living and learning environment; increase of psychological literacy of parents for the further ecological support of children, psycho-education of parents.