READINESS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING OF STUDENTS IN FIGHTING AGAINST ECOLOGICAL AND EPIDEMIC THREATS: PROTECTION METHODS IN WAR CONDITIONS

Abstract

In war conditions, the need for methodological support for the psychological readiness and well-being of student youth to counteract environmental and epidemic threats has increased. The purpose of the article is to publish a methodological complex for ensuring the psychological readiness of student youth to confidently counteract environmental and epidemic threats in the context of strengthening the emotional component of their psychological well-being (hereinafter WB) in war conditions. Materials and methods: 1) verbal, body-oriented and respiratory psychotechnologies for ensuring readiness and WB; 2) Screening questionnaire for the readiness of student youth to counter these threats; 3) Line of confidence in countering them. The main targets for ensuring the psychological readiness of young people are identified as negative states that arise in young people in conditions of military threats. The methodological complex has been is based on the paradoxical intention method of V. Frankl. For the transformation of negative states into positive ones has been used the mechanism of paradoxical reaction. Two main tasks of practical classes have been identified: 1) participants’ acquisition of the ability to transform negative states into positive ones, emotional stabilization of the acquired states; 2) strengthening confidence in these positive states. To determine the levels of readiness and confidence have been developed the Screening Questionnaire for Readiness and a Line of Confidence in it. Methodical recommendations have been formulated for the facilitator to ensure the effectiveness of practical classes. The methodological complex will contribute to ensuring the readiness and WB of student youth to counteract environmental and epidemic threats in conditions of war.