Omelyanovich V. Disorders of psychological adaptation to the service in the police (gender, mechanisms of formation, psycho-correction system and psychoprophylaxis)

As a result of integrated study of 2123 police officers, carried out through a system approach, conducted a systematic multidisciplinary gender analysis of medical, psychological and socio-psychological characteristics of disfunctions of mental adaptation to specific official activity. From gender positions studied the influence of personal, age, service, social and cross-cultural factors on the development of state of the partial mental maladjustment and psychosomatic disorders. Described pathopsychological structure of symptomatic distress and dynamic characteristics of emotional burnout. Identified and studied gender-specific psychological defense mechanisms, types of coping behaviors, which are activated in case of disorders of psychological adaptation to the service in the police. Studied the effect of alexithymia on the intensity of symptomatic distress in a state of partial mental malad-justment and among patients with psychosomatic diseases on processes of emotional burnout on the functioning of the defense mechanisms and on the prevailing forms of cop-ing behavior. Pathogenic influence of society on adaptation to the service in the police re-searched and structured as a set of social and psychological and frustrating factors Worked out and scientifically grounded system of specific psychoprophylactic and psycho-corrective measures aimed at improvement of the psychological adaptation of po-lice officers to the specific conditions of service. Implementation of the proposed system showed its adequacy and high efficiency.