PROVIDING PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSISTANCE TO MILITARY PERSONNEL BY MEANS OF BIBLIOTHERAPY

Abstract

The article presents scientific intelligence on a topic that is relevant for modern Ukrainian psychology – the search for additional psychological tools in the work to preserve the mental health of military personnel, both in places of permanent deployment of military units, and directly in the war zone. The purpose of the article there is an overview of domestic approaches and accumulated experience in the process of providing psychological assistance to the population of Ukraine in general, and to military personnel in particular. Methodology: the research used general scientific and special scientific methods, the basis of which is the application of the results of theoretical research and other generalized information about the fundamentals of the library. The historical method and the method of theoretical analysis are applied through its set-theoretic form according to implementation approaches. Scientific novelty in this work, we considered the theoretical basis for the use of bibliotherapy during the process of providing psychological assistance to clients (military personnel), developed by psychologists and military chaplains. And they also highlighted the practical experiences of employees of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Universal Scientific Library in the direction of integrating bibliotherapy into their professional activities. Conclusions. Having studied the best experience of Ukrainian library worker, psychologists and military chaplains regarding the use of a passive form of art therapy (bibliotherapy) in their activities, it was established that today bibliotherapy as a means of providing psychological assistance is still at the stage of development, and requires additional work on its integration into the process of providing psychological assistance both to military personnel in particular and to citizens of Ukraine in general.