Mobile application in the system of socio-psychological rehabilitation of traumatized personality
Анотація
It is presented a look at mobile applications as a perspective tool for preventing the devastating effects of psychotraumatisation during the hybrid war. It is argued that rehabilitation influences, first of all, should help the victim to establish causeeffect correlations between traumatic events and the corresponding symptoms, therefore the key task is the specific informing of the population. The course “Socio-psychological support for adaptation of veterans”, integrated into the application “Pocket psychologist”, is presented as a tool for such information and treatment of psychotraumatic experiences by means of a cognitive-behavioral approach. The results of empirical verification of this application effectiveness are described. Data on the research organization is provided: the tactics (plan for two non-equivalent groups with previous and repeated measurements and experimental influence); the sample (ATO veterans – 57 men from 26 to 34 years, 3 months to 1 year returned from the combat zone); the order of data collection and processing (online questionnaire by the “Impact of Event Scale”, definition of intra-group norms, estimation of data distribution normality, definition of differences by t-Student criterion). It was determined that as a result of the application usage by the experimental group there was a tendency to decrease the avoidance of conversations and memories about the traumatic experience (the avoidance scale t = 3.7, p = 0.001), however, significant changes also occurred on the scale of intrusions (t = 2.6, p = 0.013) and hyperarousal (t = 2.2, p = 0.034). There are outlined the conditions under which the effectiveness of the studied application will be persisted: the users who are adherent to technologies, their self-help motivation and the average levels of overall psychotraumatisation. The ways of inclusion of a mobile application into psychorehabilitation process on the educational, diagnostic, basic and preventive stages are offered
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