Abstract:
This article deals with the negative impact of traumatic
events of the armed conflict in the East of Ukraine on the
psyche and social psychological adaptation of the affected
people. They have a distinct stress disorder and mostly lack
skills and knowledge of how to deal with their state and feelings
they are experiencing. It is important to emphasize the fact that
this phenomenon has impact not only on the combatants, but
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also on their close surrounding – family, friends, acquaintances,
who often don't know how to behave and react. Stress can lead
to a crisis because of the repeated failure to get rid of it. Life
goals disappear, a person is not able to see the future or set other
objectives, to find a new meaning of his/her life. As a result,
adapting to the new reality becomes complicated. When
stressed, a person mostly resorts to such forms of psychological
adaptation as coping strategies and other mechanisms of
psychological protection. In the process of psychological
adaptation coping strategies have compensatory functions,
whereas psychological protective mechanisms provide
decompensation. However, they give time for the mind to
develop more effective methods of overcoming stress. The task
of the experts of any specialty is to help the person adapt to the
new living conditions and return to the usual lifestyle as quickly
as possible. It is important to find and promptly re-establish the
links between the past and the present, to restore the picture of
the world, which existed before the injury, on the basis of
professional affiliation, perceived roles, behavior, which can be
renewed at present conditions of life. According to experts,
absence of the concept, national programme and the system of
rehabilitation measures, persistently aggravate the problem of
mental disorders, exponentially increasing its negative social,
economic and political consequences.
