Program of complex rehabilitation for people with combat experience
Program of comprehensive rehabilitation for demobilized soldiers in a state of combat stress
![Program of complex rehabilitation for people with combat experience](https://ucare.foundation/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/heroes-main.jpeg)
1 000 000+
Ukrainian soldiers take part in the active phase of the war
3 000 000+
Ukrainians need help
More than 3 million Ukrainians (military personnel and their families) need immediate professional help for psycho emotional recovery, resocialization, and returning to a peaceful life
Uniqueness of the program
- Provides specialized psychotherapeutic care that belongs to the highest level of mental health interventions. It will be delivered by trauma therapist psychologists trained in trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy (CBP) and EMDR.
- Includes diagnostics, processing of traumatic material (individuallyn and in a group), training in self-help skills, and strengthening of resilience through trauma growth. Self-help includes psychoeducation, stress management skills, and mindfulness.
- Conducts interventions at the physical, cognitive and emotional levels by a team of specialists in various fields: psychotherapists, rehabilitation therapists, neurologists, psychiatrists, etc.
![Uniqueness of the program](https://ucare.foundation/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/unique-1.jpeg)
Purpose of the "HEROES" program
![To improve the psychological state of demobilized soldiers, and restore their mental, physical, spiritual, and social health.](https://ucare.foundation/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/goals-1.jpeg)
![To facilitate the integration of Ukrainian defenders who have returned from the war into the current conditions of life in the realities of an unfinished war.](https://ucare.foundation/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/goals-2.jpeg)
![Help to reestablish previous and form new social relationships.<br />](https://ucare.foundation/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/goals-3.jpeg)
![To help people with combat experience to develop and strengthen trusting, emotionally close relationships in the family, kinship and friendship circles.](https://ucare.foundation/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/goals-4.jpeg)
The program provides for the integration of psycho-, physiotherapy, art therapy, and natural resource activities that will help prevent:
![The program provides for the integration of psycho-, physiotherapy, art therapy, and natural resource activities that will help prevent:](https://ucare.foundation/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/large-img.jpeg)
The development
of PTSD
of PTSD
Complications of grief reactions, depression, anxiety, and other psychological disorders
Suicidal and deviant behavior
Gender-based violence in families and communities
Program stages
21 DAYSWEEK 1
Physiological and psychological rehabilitation - unloading of the nervous system, restoration of sleep and natural biorhythms with the help of group and individual psychotherapy, kinesitherapy, body practices, physical education, natural recreation therapy, restoration of a stable daily routine, eating behavior, etc.
WEEK 2
Psycho-emotional rehabilitation – art therapy, group and individual psychotherapy, natural tourism, visits to cultural and artistic monuments.
WEEK 3
Resocialization – recovery of quality social communication skills, restoration of existing and establishment of new partnerships through family and group therapy sessions, active responsible participation in collective activities.
A team of specialists
Psychiatrist with a license to dispense drugs (treatment of acute mental disorders)
1 for each group
Psychotherapists(trauma therapist, CBT,EMDR)
2 for each group
Rehabilitation therapists/massage therapists (in body oriented areas of work, physical rehabilitation)
from 2 to 4 specialists for each group
Psychologists (work with partners of military personnel and leading joint groups to harmonize relationships in family and society)
2 for each group
Neurologist/neuropsychologist (rehabilitation after contusions and TBI)
1 for each group
Art-masters (sense-making for processing traumatic experience)
2 for each group
Case manager of social assistance consultations, (solving legal issues)
1 for each group
Coordinator-methodologist (program coordination, supervision of specialists)
1 for each group