Rehabilitation of participants of battle actions: posttraumatic stress syndrome

A negative psychical background is the imprint of smell ofpowder, hampering social and professional adaptation, and also interpersonal relations ofparticipants of battle actions. The study of level of socially-psychological adaptation of invalids and participants of battle actions showed that their considerable part (about 58%) has signs of zero adaptability, and in 12% of cases from this category the signs of complete social disadaptation are pronounced with the expressed negative reaction on situations, by irreconcilable attitude toward all surrounding, by the expressed protest reactions. The low level of adaptation of this category of persons is caused by the array of factors of both objective and subjective character. To the objective factors it is possible to refer socio-economic indexes, characterizing quality of the life of this contingent, state of health, weight of disability. However it is not always succeeded to observe the direct dependence between these indices and state of adaptation. It is explained by subjective psychological descriptions. The psychological consequences of traumatic stress determine the special requirement of contingent of private traders of battle actions in a socially-psychological rehabilitation. In cases of expressed posttraumatic stress disorders, socio-psychological disadaptation of persons from a number the veterans of battle actions, individual work is required after a vocational orientation and further employment taking into account compensatory-adaptive possibilities of organism and features ofpsychical reactions for the servicemen injured as a result of armed conflict.

rehabilitation of the combatants, post-traumatic stress syndrome, psycho-social correction, specialty, profession, intellectual work, physical work, compensatory-adaptive possibilities of an organism