MMSL 2025, 94(3):95-106 | DOI: 10.31482/mmsl.2024.010

TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF EMOTIONAL BURNOUT AMONG SPECIAL SERVICES AND MILITARY PERSONNEL: BEST PRACTICES AND PROSPECTS FOR THEIR IMPLEMENTATIONOriginal article

Liliia Semenenko ORCID...1*, Uzef Dobrovolskyi2, Stanislav Petrenko2, Maria Yarmolchyk2, Oleksii Ishchenko ORCID...3
1 Department of Foreign Languages, National Defence University of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2 Department of Military Training, National Aviation University, Kyiv, Ukraine
3 Department of Missile Troops and Artillery, National Defence University of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

Objectives: The purpose of this research is to identify effective treatments and promote prevention of emotional burnout among special services and military personnel. It also aims to highlight best practices and potential implementation strategies by specialists from Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Poland, UK, USA, Canada, and South Korea.

Methods: The primary method utilized in this research is experimentation, employing practical psychology techniques to enhance the personal competencies of special services and military personnel. Psychological observation, conversations, questionnaires, diagnostics, and statistical analysis were auxiliary methods used to tailor emotional burnout prevention strategies specific to this group.

Results: As a result, the research identifies features and specifics of the work of employees of special services and military structures, presents the main ways, and methods of treatment and prevention of emotional burnout and reveals the most effective of them for employees of special services and military personnel depending on their individual and personal characteristics. The application of emotional burnout training as a preventive measure is substantiated by the best practices and prospects of its implementation.

Conclusions: The authors conclude that emotional burnout is one of the main problems of the 21st century, which concerns not only those whose activity is communication with people, but also any person who cannot regulate their emotional state. The specifics of the activities of employees of special services and military units require special professional and personal qualities, the absence of which can contribute to the formation of emotional burnout.

Keywords: Emotional Exhaustion; Stress Factors; Structures of Special Units; Professional Deformation; Psychological Safety; Prevention

Received: January 10, 2024; Revised: April 8, 2024; Accepted: May 2, 2024; Prepublished online: May 22, 2024; Published: September 1, 2025  Show citation

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Semenenko, L., Dobrovolskyi, U., Petrenko, S., Yarmolchyk, M., & Ishchenko, O. (2025). TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF EMOTIONAL BURNOUT AMONG SPECIAL SERVICES AND MILITARY PERSONNEL: BEST PRACTICES AND PROSPECTS FOR THEIR IMPLEMENTATION. MMSL94(3), 95-106. doi: 10.31482/mmsl.2024.010
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