THE ROLE OF A SOCIAL WORKER IN THE PROCESS OF NEUTRALIZING THE CONSEQUENCES OF POST-TRAUMATIC SYNDROME IN SERVICEMEN AND WAR VETERANS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the problem of the role of a social worker in the process of neutralizing the consequences of post-traumatic syndrome in servicemen and war veterans.

The article discusses psychotraumatic events and their impact on the spiritual, mental, social and physical health of an individual.

Psychotraumatic situations are analyzed, on the one hand, as a source of danger for a person's spiritual and mental health, and on the other - as a source of spiritual growth of the individual, since war “bares” the human soul, activating its most important personal qualities.

The tasks and psychological features of the work of a social worker and a veteran's assistant in the context of socio-psychological rehabilitation and spiritual and moral recovery of war veterans, servicemen and families of defenders of the Motherland in the conditions of martial law and during the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine are revealed.

The content component of the innovative educational program for training veterans' assistants, which was developed and tested by the teachers of the Department of Sociology and Social Work of Lviv Polytechnic University, was analyzed.

Possible ways of meaningful improvement of training programs for social workers and veterans' assistants in the direction of spiritual and moral rehabilitation of the individual are proposed, which will help, to a certain extent, to neutralize post-traumatic syndrome in servicemen and war veterans.