PSYCHOTECHNOLOGICAL APPROACH TO OPTIMIZING DESTRUCTIVE EMOTIONAL STATES OF MILITARY PERSONNEL
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https://doi.org/10.32782/psych.studies/2025.2.13Keywords:
emotional sphere, emotional disorders, military personnel, psychotechnology, processes of change, optimization, dialectical behavioral therapyAbstract
The article is devoted to the description of a psychotechnological approach to optimizing the emotional sphere of military personnel during rehabilitation, based on dialectical behavioral therapy and other psychotherapeutic approaches. They present modern views of scientists on the emotional sphere of the psyche and protective mechanisms that ensure the course of emotions and emotional states. Special changes in the emotional sphere occur during the period of martial law. And the first to feel the traumatic impact of these social changes are military personnel. They experience emotional suffering caused by military actions. As a result, each of them comes into force protective mechanisms that help to cope with stress and emotional pain. The purpose of the article is to describe the features of the psychotechnology of optimizing destructive emotional states of military personnel, to present the provisions on which it is based. The study of transdiagnostic mechanisms in the military allows us to establish: what needs to be changed, what mechanisms should not be resorted to and how best to help them cope with emotional suffering. What should be the technical methods on the path to emotional healing. To weaken the effect of negative defense mechanisms, we have substantiated a dialecticalbehavioral approach to creating a psychotechnology for ensuring changes in the mental state and achieving processes of change in the emotional sphere of military personnel, which will help them free themselves from excessively strong experiences and direct their energy to a full life. The article notes that the formulated provisions reflect the essence of the developed psychotechnology, centered on the optimization of the emotional sphere, in particular various, including destructive, emotional states, on the neutralization and overcoming of transdiagnostic mechanisms that cause emotional suffering.
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