RESILIENCE IN THE MODELS FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL PREPARATIONS OF THE PERSONNEL DEPLOYED IN HIGH RISK REGIONS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS
RESILIENCE IN THE MODELS FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL PREPARATIONS OF THE PERSONNEL DEPLOYED IN HIGH RISK REGIONS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS

Summary/Abstract: The employees in the field of security and defense are one of the groups most exposed to occupational hazards, especially those of a psychosocial nature. The changing characteristics of today's threats and conflicts also change the complexity, duration, and the degree of risk of the operations in which they participate. These factors of influence, with all their aspects, have the potential to cause physical, social and psychological consequences. In the past period, much attention was given to those who "broke" under stress during operations, but we also know that many of them have survived coping with stress with considerable resilience and stability even when it comes to a severe traumatic experience.When talking about psychological resistance or resilience,it is not enough just to explore the deficiencies and risk factors, but we need a broader approach to understanding the resilience based on the strengths and capacities.These are the basics of psychological preparations incorporated into the training program of the units and represent one of the most fundamental requirements for effective execution of the mission. Psychological preparedness is a mental state of focus on the performance of tasks in the mission. This kind of a situation is the result of several factors that can be planned, exercised, checked, and many of them can and should be influenced much earlier, that is, before mission deployment. Psychological preparations, through various methods and techniques, help to develop the resilience until developing strategies for coping, recovery, restoring the balance throughout the deployment cycle (before, during and after the missions).It provides positive results from critical events that jeopardize the safety of the individual. The models of psychological preparation are an attempt to embrace the challenges of the profession itself and adapt the dynamics of the contemporary tasks, an attempt to see them through a different prism - through the prism of "affective variables".In this context, they are seen as indicators of competent psychosocial functioning of the personnel, in animportantarea of their profession - participation in operations through different periods of the process characterized by specific requirements and risks.

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