Therefore, starting October 16, psychologists from the Unbreakable Mental Recovery Center of the Masha Fund will begin training on Psychological Rehabilitation of Participants in Combat Operations: Ukrainian experience and techniques of the 2nd and 3rd waves of the CBT course, under the leadership of leading Ukrainian specialists Olesia Borisova and Alex Halchynskyi.
The Masha Fund continues to build a team of specialists to provide the highest-quality assistance to program participants and to expand into new areas of work.
Training is conducted in cooperation with GIZ at the South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushinskyi. Its goal is to improve the quality of psychological assistance for defenders of Ukraine.
The training will continue online through the end of December. 13 psychologists from the Unbreakable Center are participating.
“Course instructors collaborate with leading veteran rehabilitation facilities. Alex Halchinskyi covers the Superhumans psychological service. This is a place where the best global and Ukrainian experience in psychological support for the military is gathered,” says Olena Zapolska, a methodologist at the Unbreakable Center. “This allows you to accumulate the best knowledge without breaking away from practical work.”
The course program covers the full cycle of psychorehabilitation—from the first consultation and history-taking to the development of an individual recovery plan.
Topics include working with people released from captivity, assistance after amputations, algorithms for dealing with suicidal risks, techniques for dealing with insomnia, and the use of acceptance and responsibility therapy approaches. A separate module is dedicated to neurodiagnostics and neurorehabilitation of the consequences of traumatic brain injuries.
“This training gives our psychologists the opportunity to deepen their professional competencies and implement innovative approaches in their work,” noted the Nezlamna Center. “After all, supporting people who have gone through the horrors of war requires deep knowledge, structured methods, and continuous development of specialists.”
The Masha Fund NGO implements the project, Expanding Access to Psychological Support for Women Affected by War, within the framework of the GIZ Ukraine project, Gender-Sensitive Approaches to Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Ukraine, funded by the German government.
