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What is Social Adaptation

Handbook of Research on Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Conflicts and Their Impact on State and Social Security
Is a system of measures aimed at adapting a citizen, who is in a difficult life situation, to the rules and norms of behavior accepted in society, and to his environment of life.
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The Peculiarities of Social Detachment of Participants in the Armed Conflict in the East of Ukraine
Nataliia Svitlychna (National University of Civil Defence of Ukraine, Ukraine), Natalia Afanasieva (Donetsk National University, Ukraine), Iryna Ostopolets (Donbass State Pedagogical University, Ukraine), and Olha Zastavna (Precarpathian National University Named After Vasyl Stefanyk, Ukraine)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8911-3.ch011
Abstract
The chapter is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of social and personal identity of the participants in the armed conflict in Ukraine, in particular the formation of the personality's detachment. The level of social detachment of the veterans, the participants of the armed conflict in Ukraine, is investigated, their attitude to significant aspects of life is determined, the degree of intensity of adaptation processes is revealed, the peculiarities of the adaptation period of a personality are analyzed. The study involved three groups of subjects: Group 1 includes volunteers that are citizens of Ukraine who voluntarily joined. Group 2 includes mobilized persons – the citizens who were obliged to appear on call to the military commissariats. Group 3 are professional servicemen. The study showed that all three groups of the participants require social and psychological rehabilitation, which makes it especially urgent to develop ways and means of providing psychological assistance to this category of people in order to prevent and restore their psychological health.
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Rewriting a Lost Story: The Truth in the Narratives of Balkan Immigrants
The adjustment of individual and group behavior to conform with the prevailing system of norms and values in a given society, class, or social group. Also includes friendly or cooperative relations among people or groups.
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