Psychodiagnostic toolkit of combat stress for aviation specialists

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the analysis of psychological techniques used in psychological practice to determine the combat stress among aviation professionals. The relevance of the article is due to the active interest of modern researchers in this problem as the appropriate psychological toolkit doesn’t exist. The study is performed in compliance with medical psychology, together with the study of combat stress phenomenology and the development of psychological tools for psychodiagnostics, psychocorrection, and psychotherapy. The author presents express-methods that allow both to establish the signs of combat stress and to assess it in points, to work with tools in the field at any weather and season or hospital conditions. The suggested comprehensive approach to the study of the combat stress phenomenon among the specialists through its understanding of the integrative internal content where one of its elements is psychological resources. This approach allows us to study combat stress in the dynamics of its changes, as a state of mental stress among the servicemen during their adaptation to combat conditions using the resource potential. The analysis showed that the proposed methods are universal and allow a comprehensive consideration of the combat stress problem among the servicemen.