Problem issues of legal regulation of psychological rehabilitation of military servants and participants of combat

Abstract

The article is devoted to the consideration of the current state of the system of psychological rehabilitation and administrative and legal regulation of combatants who took a direct part in the armed conflict and suffered during the hostilities. The analysis of the legal bases on which the functioning of the domestic system of psychological rehabilitation is based is given. Considerable attention is paid to the consideration of the activities of various institutions and organizations for the provision of services for the psychological rehabilitation of combatants.

The professional activity of servicemen is characterized by a high level of psycho-emotional stress, which is associated with the importance and responsibility of solving combat tasks and the presence of a real risk to life. Participation in hostilities can be considered as stressful events of an exceptional nature that cause general distress in almost everyone, due to the negative factors associated with being in a group of people at increased risk of developing asthenic disorders.

Today, the Ukrainian state is undergoing profound domestic political, social and economic changes that have affected all spheres of life and every citizen. One of the main characteristics of these changes is the increase in the frequency and scale of extreme conditions. Extremity permeates the life of large social groups, individual regions and entire states. Fighting in the east of the country, corruption, social instability, political and economic crisis, all these events have not only far-reaching social, material, cultural, medical, but also psychological consequences.

World statistics on natural disasters, catastrophes and hostilities show that the number of cases of neuropsychiatric disorders, depending on the type of extreme situation can be 10-25% of the total number of people involved in the situation. These psycho-emotional losses require not only the involvement of a large number of specialists to provide assistance to victims, but also significant attention from the state and government agencies in the form of funding for state programs of psychological rehabilitation, and so on.

All this is directly related to the personnel of the Armed Forces and other military formations that become participants in the epicenter of events. In these circumstances, unit commanders must be armed with psychologically sound methods of organizing the activities of personnel, as well as have an education in the legal framework governing the psychological rehabilitation of servicemen. This, of course, will reduce the percentage of psychological losses, increase the efficiency of units in extreme conditions and ensure a rapid recovery of their combat effectiveness.

However, despite the existence in the Ukrainian legislation of a number of legal documents governing the rehabilitation of servicemen during injuries or psychological trauma, the current legislation of Ukraine is not able to fully ensure the proper level of comprehensive rehabilitation of servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations. took a direct part in hostilities. This scientific material reveals a number of problematic issues at the legislative level and offers its own vision of resolving urgent needs and inconsistencies in the administrative and legal field.