Metropolitan police psychologists conducted training for employees of the service center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on increasing stress resistance in today's conditions
Within the framework of the National Program of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, law enforcement officers told class participants about the concepts, signs, sources, stages of stress, methods of relieving psychological stress and put into practice methods for regulating their psycho-emotional state.
The event was organized on the initiative of the leadership of the Main Service Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs within the framework of the National Mental Health Program, where instructors of the psychological support department of the capital's head and district police departments conducted stress resistance trainings for service center employees.
The head of the personnel support department of the Kiev police Viktoriia Azarova and the head of the psychological support department Denis Romanenko addressed the participants with an introductory speech, who spoke about the topics of the training:
“During the meeting, we will learn to cope with mental stress on our own, in order to help ourselves and others in the future. The main goal of the program is to overcome the stress associated with the war and the consequences of the traumatic events experienced, to prevent the development of post-traumatic stress syndrome and mental disorders.”
Instructors were police-psychologists of the Pechersk, Desnyansky, Darnytsky police departments. The coaches talked to the participants about the concepts, signs, sources, stages of stress and identified the stressors of each participant.
During the practical part participants learned the techniques of the “Four Elements”: breathing and muscle relaxation according to the Jacobson method. The main attention was paid to the formation of the resource state of the participants of the training - the ability to understand themselves. It was about emotions, feelings, sensations, awareness of needs, how they arise and those that were realized even during hostilities. For this, the “Wheel of Balance” technique, Karl Pleissner's cards of needs and emotions (non-violent communication technique), the metaphorical associative cards “I and all, all, all” by Camila Kruger were used.
The participants identified and talked not only about personal resources and means of managing stressors, but also found a common symbol of internal balance, which was reproduced together on paper by performing the Joint Drawing exercise.
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