PERSONALITY POST-TRAUMATIC LIFE-DESIGNING: DIAGNOSTICS AND RESTORATION METHODS

Abstract

The empirical verification of the following aspects of the psychological health restoration theory  is presented: the range of psychological consequences of the trauma impact on the personality; ways of allocating resources of the personality in difficult conditions; the means and procedures for determining the effectiveness of rehabilitation impacts; prospects of providing comprehensive psychosocial support for the personality. The complex of methods that were used by the staff of the laboratory of the social psychology of personality in the study of the post-traumatic stage of life formation was tested.

The following diagnostic methods have been effective: interviewing methods, in-depth and contextual interviews, and creating self-narratives. Obtained through the use of qualitative methods the interpretation of the results was carried out using the procedures of content analysis and analysis of creative products. The informative method of interviewing, through which we were able to identify the impact of traumatic life circumstances on the ways of life organization, lifestyle changes, testing of new copings, is attested.

The formative-restorative influence of social-psychological rehabilitation methods on the individual is proved. The effectiveness of rehabilitation technologies was tested using the method of phenomenological analysis of individual and group influences and the subsequent analysis of counseling, psychotherapeutic and training texts, which made it possible to find out the phenomenology of traumatic experience of the victims, to fix the presence of internal and external resources for psychological health restoration and reconstruct value-meaning and praxeological contexts of post-traumatic life