Guest meeting with psychologist of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine Ilya Borodovka

On May 12, the Department of Psychology organized a guest online meeting – a dialogue with psychologist Illia Borodovka of the State Emergency Service.

Invited speaker Illia Borodovko – a psychologist, head of the psychological support department of the Center for ensuring the activities of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Zaporizhzhia region, a major of the civil protection service – talked about his path as a psychologist in the field, compared work in the State Emergency Service before the war and during the war, shared his own experience of participating in rescue operations, in particular at the sites of Russian strikes.

The participants of the meeting received answers to numerous questions: about specific actions of psychologists in emergency situations; about the peculiarities of psychological assistance to victims on the ground, about methods and forms of work.

The guest meeting took place within the framework of the study of the first-year psychological master’s students of the academic discipline «Psychological assistance in emergency situations».

About 40 participants took part, the vast majority of whom were students majoring in «Psychology» at Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic University. Psychological students of Mykhailo Ostrogradsky National University of Kremenchug joined the meeting together with Olha Litvynova, head of the department of psychology, pedagogy and philosophy. The event was also supported by Serhiy Druzhynin, the regional coordinator of the All-Ukrainian mental health program «How are you?».

Thank you to the speaker for an interesting, useful and inspiring meeting, as well as to all participants for their activity!