Short-term prospects for solving the problems of medical-psychological support to military personnel

The main directions and problem aspects of improving medical-psychological support to military personnel are considered. This term denotes an integral part and logical continuation of military professional psychological selection, which, due to a number of reasons, is less developed than professional psychodiagnostics in the interests of selection and rational distribution of military personnel. The main idea of the article is to prove the necessity of a unified theoretical basis of the whole complex of medical-psychological support to military personnel. The appropriateness of modern psychological theories of personality, closely associated with neurophysiology (in particular, G. Gray’s theory) is emphasized. The possibility of practical use of some achievements of the foreign project Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) in interests of diagnostics, examination and monitoring of professional mental health of military personnel is noted. With the purpose of dynamic estimation of functional states of the military personnel it is suggested to create a psychodiagnostic tool on the basis of the concept of interaction of stress-activating and stress-limiting systems. The questions of artificial intelligence application for psychophysiological diagnostics, necessity of further development of “psychological riskology” and preventology for the purpose of medical-psychological support of the military personnel improvement are discussed. The elaboration of a modern scientific basis for the development of the system of medical-psychological support will make it possible to use a multilevel approach to the evaluation of mental health of military personnel, taking into account the socio-cultural, psychosocial and biological levels of mental disorders and behavioral deviations. The transition to continuous and comprehensive prevention as a preventive branch of military, clinical psychology and psychiatry will be greatly accelerated.