Socio-institutional reintegration characteristics of hybrid war veterans

The article considers the main areas of social work with veterans of the hybrid war. An analysis of scientific works on the research problem has been carried out in order to determine the main directions of social work with veterans. The results of an empirical study conducted in the form of a questionnaire have been presented. The results of the survey on determining the needs of veterans have formed the basis of the developed areas of social work with this category of clients. The purpose of the research, covered in the article, is to identify the problems of veterans of the hybrid war and to develop directions for social work with this category of clients. The main tasks are as follows: to analyze the leading scientific works on the research problem and substantiate the conceptual provisions of the problem of social work with veterans; to identify socio-psychological features of hybrid war veterans; to investigate the problems of hybrid war veterans as a basis for developing areas of social work with this population category. Achieving the set goal and solving research tasks has been carried out using theoretical, empirical and statistical methods of data processing. The conclusions confirm that the identified problems of hybrid war veterans can be grouped into the following groups: social, physiological, personal, legal and psychological. The determined socio-psychological characteristics of veterans give grounds for asserting that this category of clients needs the development of innovative directions of social work with this category of clients. Based on the results of the research, we have developed directions for social work with veterans of the hybrid war: social-legal, social-medical, social-pedagogical, psychological-social. The novelty of the research lies in the determination of actual problems of hybrid war veterans and their socio-psychological characteristics, which is the basis for the development of directions for social work with hybrid war veterans.