Medical-psychological support of specialists' professional activity in extreme conditions

Melnyk, Yuriy; Prykhodko, Ihor; Стаднік, А. В.

doi:10.23736/s0391-1772.19.02025-9

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“…Although psychologists had to pay attention to the increase in alcohol abuse by the servicemen of this group (they told those around them that it was necessary to "relieve constant tension"). Nevertheless, both the 2014-2016 suicide servicemen and persons of this type who committed suicide in 2017-2019, despite their mental suffering, tried to the last to play the role of "courageous servicemen" who could endure all difficulties and successfully cope with combat stress (Melnyk et al, 2019).…”

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The Main Factors and Personality Characteristics to Predict the Risk of Suicide by Military Personnel in Hostilities

Prykhodko

Matsehora

Kolesnichenko

et al. 2020

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The problem of non-combat losses due to suicides of military personnel is relevant for most of the armed forces of states participating in local armed conflicts. The posthumous pathopsychological study of materials from the investigation of suicides by Ukrainian military personnel made it possible to identify the main factors of committing suicides during the period of participation in hostilities in eastern Ukraine in 2014-2019: problems of adaptation to combat conditions; insufficient level of professional and psychological training to perform missions in combat conditions; acute stressful reactions to participation in hostilities; physical and mental exhaustion, demotivation; dysfunctional families; loneliness or breakup with a beloved woman; offenses and disciplinary actions; alcohol abuse. The main types of personality who committed suicide in different periods of hostilities were: in 2014-2016 "Demonstratively-Dependent", having two subtypes "Demonstratively-Maladaptive" and "Demonstratively-Masked"; in 2017-2019 "Asthenic-Depressive", which has two subtypes "Constitutionally-Weak" and "Exhausted-Demotivated". The manifestation of PTSD symptoms, physical and mental exhaustion, demotivation, indifference of society to the problems of veterans can significantly increase the risk of suicide in the postwar period. The division into periods of suicidal activity of servicemen suggests that the identified types (subtypes) of personality become suicidal only in extreme conditions with impaired adaptation and self-realization. The identified reasons for committing suicides and the typification of military personnel-suicides associated with different periods of participation in hostilities are not exhaustive.

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The Main Factors and Personality Characteristics to Predict the Risk of Suicide by Military Personnel in Hostilities

Prykhodko

Matsehora

Kolesnichenko

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“…The main method of psychological research of professional activity in various specialties is analytical professiography (Bodrov, 2007). Analytical professiography allows to study of the patterns, mechanisms, conditions, and factors of the productive development of personnel and the implementation of the chosen life strategy (Karpilovskaya et al, 1997;Melnyk et al, 2019).…”

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Automation of Psychological Selection Procedures for Personnel to Specific Activities

Prykhodko¹,

Horielyshev²,

Matsehora³

et al. 2022

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The article presents a universal method for determining the professional suitability (PS) of a candidate and an algorithm for forming a psychological profile for a specific profession based on determining the psychological potential of personality. The developed method is based on the use of automated support systems. Based on the obtained value of the integral indicator, a decision is made on the PS group of this candidate. This method adapts to the requirements of the profession to candidates, taking into account changes in the conditions of activity by adjusting the typical psychological profile of the personality. The developed method for determining a candidate’s PS has been brought to practical implementation in the form of an Automated Psychodiagnostic Complex (APDC) “Psychodiagnostics.” APDC has been tested on the example of the psychological selection procedures of personnel for military service in units with law enforcement functions. APDС allows to reduce the time and labor costs for conducting psychodiagnostic studies, increases the reliability of tests due to a higher degree of standardization of the testing procedure, increases the accuracy of assessing psychological characteristics, and reduces the likelihood of errors in the processing of test results. APDС can be used for recruiting in various sectors of the economy, education, and military sphere.

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“…In the first years of the War, most of the Ukrainian military personnel had no combat experience, since after the Second World War no military operations were carried out on the territory of Ukraine (Prykhodko et al, 2019). Therefore, at the time of the outbreak of the armed conflict, it was revealed that the existing level of professional and psychological training of Ukrainian military personnel was not enough to conduct large-scale, non-standard, asymmetric operations (Kokun et al, 2020;Melnyk et al, 2019). According to Blinov (2018), 80-90% of Ukrainian combatants showed signs of combat stress, 25% of combatants subsequently experienced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) of varying severity, 20% of combatants showed some symptoms of PTSD (maladaptation reactions), 27% of military personnel had incomplete clinical manifestations of PTSD.…”

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The Psychological Readiness Model of Military Personnel to Take Risks during a Combat Deployment

Prykhodko

Lyman

Matsehora

et al. 2021

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The purpose of this article is to present an empirically-derived psychological readiness model of military personnel to take risks during combat deployment. The model was developed using the methods of semantic differential, peer review, and factor analysis. Its theoretical basis is the concept of “hardiness”. The study involved 104 military personnel of the National Guard of Ukraine had combat experience in the War in Eastern Ukraine. The model includes four components: “Ability for volitional efforts (mobilization)”, “Military brotherhood”, “Professional identity”, “Self-control (endurance)”. Their content covers the emotional-volitional, cognitive, motivational, moral, active-practical, existential-being, and interpersonal-social spheres of the individual. The leading role in the model belongs to strong-willed features, combat cohesion, patriotism, and adaptive resources of the individual, which make it possible to maintain the effectiveness of military personnel’s combat activities under conditions of risk. The basis of the psychological readiness of military personnel to actively act and overcome difficulties in conditions of risk (uncertainty, direct threat to health and life) with the absence of reliable guarantees for success is hardiness. It is suggested that the model can be used for psychological selection procedures, professional and psychological training of military personnel, predicting their behavior under conditions of risk, and developing strategies for psychological support in the post-deployment period. This will reduce psychogenic losses during hostilities.

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Medical-psychological support of specialists' professional activity in extreme conditions

Cited by 17 publications

References 34 publications

The Main Factors and Personality Characteristics to Predict the Risk of Suicide by Military Personnel in Hostilities

The Main Factors and Personality Characteristics to Predict the Risk of Suicide by Military Personnel in Hostilities

Automation of Psychological Selection Procedures for Personnel to Specific Activities

The Psychological Readiness Model of Military Personnel to Take Risks during a Combat Deployment

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