Psychosocial rehabilitation and readaptation of volunteers: An empirical evaluation of the paradox technology efficiency

The purpose of the research was to find out the effectiveness of using the paradox technology in the female volunteers restoring, which were the participants of the School of Psychosocial Assistance to ATO veterans, members of their families, volunteers and internally displaced persons based on Chernihiv National Technological University. During the studying volunteers got the skills and abilities to transform their negative states into personal experience, mastered the means of psychological self and mutual assistance and achieved positive changes in the quality of their life. There were empirically confirmed the dynamics and decreases of posttraumatic conditions and adaptive disorders after completion of study. According to the self-assessment of the achieved results after the completion of the classes, and within three months after the end of the School, the quality of their family life and interaction with the external social environment improved significantly. However, according to the latest survey, which was conducted three months after the completion of studying, despite of improving their quality of life, comparing the empirical results of PTSD screening, volunteer’s adaptability and self-assessment of quality of life changes; there was a relative increase in PTSD symptoms and abnormalities of adaptability. This increase in symptoms is attributed to the influence of personal changes that have been initiated in the learning process. Volunteers gain greater subjectivity, autonomy and responsibility for their own lives. The indicated changes have led to a violation of the previous habitual balance in relations with their families and external social environment. Also the lack of communication between the volunteers and the teachers of the School and the study group during the three months after the completion of classes determined instability of their personalities in condition of changes in relations with their families and social environment. Such communication was ensured in a proper way during the classes. The study showed the need to develop more effective means of volunteers’ psychosocial support in their transition to independent living in new conditions for them, ensuring the sustainability and harmony of their personalities in condition of internal and external changes in their lives