(2018) Science and education, 9-10, 60-67. Odessa.

Oleksandr Shmatenko,
Doctor of Pharmacy, professor, head of the Department of Military Pharmacy,
Ukrainian Military Medical Academy,
45/1, Moskovska Str., Kyiv, Ukraine,
Volodymyr Rudenko,
Doctor of Pharmacy, associate professor,
Department of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmacy,
Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education,
9, Dorohozhytska Str., Kyiv, Ukraine,
Nataliia Honcharenko,
PhD (Candidate of Psychological Sciences), associate professor,
Department of Medical Pharmacy,
Ukrainian Military Medical Academy,
45/1, Moskovska Str., Kyiv, Ukraine

BASIC BRANCHES OF INTERNSHIP PHARMACISTS PSYCHOLOGICAL
COUNSELING FOR THEIR MENTAL HEALTH PRESERVATION

The paper deals with main directions of psychological counseling internship pharmacists with the aim of their mental health preservation. The purpose of the research is to review psychological peculiarities and results of would-be internship pharmacists’ mental health preservation and adjustment training implementation. The designed program of the “Internship Pharmacists’ Mental Health Art Therapy Adjustment” training is realized by means of implementing techniques of dance, music, voice and art therapy. The program is focused on the most significant factors of mental health preservation: attitude towards health as the most important value, self-control skills, stress resistance skills, etc. the experiment involved 120 internship pharmacists who were divided into control and experimental groups depending on the level of their mental health. As a result of the experiment, it has been found that the most efficient kind of psychological counseling aimed at mental health preservation is a psychological training method. The best tool for mental health adjustment is direct impact on human psychological states, which can be reached by means of art therapy. The main branches of correctional work with future pharmacists with the aim of their mental health preservation are as follows: making them aware of mental health in general and its psychological factors in pharmacists in particular; profound self-awareness provision; self-regulation skills formation; self-esteem adjustment; communication skills development; self-analysis and coping strategies development; formation of valuable attitude towards health; one’s individual mental health adjustment program design.

 psychological counseling, internship pharmacists, art therapy, psychological training, mental healh, means of art therapy.

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