The article is devoted to the problem of development of empathic abilities of officers of the Armed Forces. An officer of the modern Armed Forces must be a holistic personality, capable of constant self-development and selfimprovement, with a certain set of moral qualities; his personality should be leadership-oriented, which includes the skills to lead subordinates, take responsibility for them and have a sufficient level of empathic abilities, manifested in empathy, interest in improving the moral and psychological condition of subordinate personnel and each subordinate individually. The concepts of personality, leadership and empathy as a communicative and organizational component of leadership qualities are covered. The level of empathy ability among the officers of a unit of a separate military unit is analyzed and recommendations for its increase are given. Regarding the problem of developing empathic abilities among officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, we can say that this topic is unfairly underestimated. This is due to the specifics of military-professional activities, which are clearly regulated by the statutory relationship. "Living by statute" implies the mandatory fulfillment of all its requirements, and does not provide any recommendations for the establishment of interpersonal relations in the military. However, as the experience of recent years has shown, the Armed Forces of Ukraine needed an immediate increase in mobilization resources, which led to conscription of Ukrainian troops, with different motivational factors, different levels of life experience, different age groups. Empathy is one of the important communicative and organizational components of leadership. The chief officer must have an average level of empathic abilities, which allows you to create the most comfortable psychological climate in the subordinate department, without violating military discipline. Analyzing the level of empathy on the example of one of the military units, we saw that not all officers have formed it enough, so it was suggested training exercises to improve it. We also stressed the importance of awareness of the participants about empathy, as well as its development in terms of its various components.

The article examines the impact of military action in the east of the country on the trends of future specialists in the field of psychology with younger scholars. This problem is quite relevant today, as a large number of parents with children have been forced to leave the eastern regions of the country. However, there are now areas of work that are currently being mastered by student psychologists. Also, the article presents areas for improving professional skills given the geopolitical situation within the country. Ways to improve the professional training of students are offered. It is no secret that Ukrainian society is experiencing a period of crisis, which is associated with many factors. One of the most important factors is the armed conflict in the east of our country. It is bitter that this action has divided not only society and politicians, but also families. With statistics from the UN, we can say that there are now about 1.198 million migrants from the eastern region of the country. Of these, about 253 thousand children, and how many are left there? How many children do not have the opportunity to see their relatives, play with peers or even go to school? And how many of them know what war is. It is safe to say that they have had a terrible childhood, because the hybrid war has left them no chance for happy years in safety and peace. About 250 children have died in the east since the beginning of 2014. We should not forget that the districts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts are one of the busiest in terms of the number of explosives and mines in the world. The children who stayed there, and there are more than 220,000 of them, do not even have the opportunity to play quietly on the playgrounds, because they are mined. This is only according to the UN. We can only focus on these figures, not state with confidence. In addition to these data, during the anti-terrorist operation and environmental protection, human rights activists recorded at least a dozen cases when military facilities and facilities of armed groups were located within 500 meters from kindergartens and schools, or directly on their territory. Such circumstances are not psychologically favorable for children, so we wonder how a modern practical psychologist can positively influence and help them achieve a normal life.

The article is devoted to the issue of psychological security in the conditions of the New Ukrainian school. The etiology of the concepts of the main components of psychological security is studied and the aspects of psychological danger are considered. The NUS Concept is analyzed. It is noted that the interaction in the system «studentteacher – family» in early school age significantly affects the attitude of the child to himself and to others (parents, peers). Primary school students were diagnosed with emotional and psychological safety at school. Drawing projective techniques have a priority position in the study of the ideas of younger students about the psychological security of the educational environment, because in this period of cognitive activity is dominated by visual thinking and continue the intensive development of the emotional sphere. The main criteria and indicators for assessing the perceptions of younger students about the psychological safety of the educational environment are: the quality of the physical space in which the interaction takes place; student-teacher-family relationships present in the educational environment of threat. The author’s projective test «Vulcan» allows revealing with a high degree of reliability the ideas of younger students about the psychological safety of the educational environment. The expediency of using the proposed projective technique is justified by certain advantages: ease of execution, game form, high validity at the professional level of the researcher, the impossibility of falsifying the results, the possibility of disclosing the personality, intellectual level of the child. Prospects for further research will be to study the implementation of the concept of NUS in relation to secondary education. In particular, this applies to the transition of students from primary to secondary school, taking into account the risks of such a transition and the possibility of their prevention. The provisions of the New Ukrainian School emphasize the peculiarities of interaction in the system «student - teacher – family», which will help create conditions for the safe transition of students to secondary education.

The article is related to the theoretical analysis of a child of primary school age who is experiencing a crisis of loss, namely the death of a loved one (one of the parents - the mother). The concepts of «grief», «loss crisis», «psychotrauma» and «post-traumatic stress disorder» were also analyzed. We also touched upon the issue of the type of loss crisis during the analysis. Primary school children have a specific emotional sphere for their development - we have considered this issue in more detail in a scientific article. The main reactions of the child to the loss of a loved one are also described. The death of a loved one has a certain individual imprint on the life of any person or child. Therefore, the impact of the death of a loved one on the present and future of the child was considered. Too often, relatives or guardians living with a child misbehave with a younger student, which also affects the child’s emotional state and has a significant impact on his or her personal development. In our work, this problem was also considered as the main cause of the development of a child of primary school age not only depression but also post-traumatic stress disorder, which is a serious intervention for the already vulnerable psyche of the child. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children of primary school age who survived the death of one of the parents – the mother – is considered. The article emphasizes that the emotional sphere in children and adolescents is particularly reactive, so mental trauma (loss crisis) affects them more than adults. However, it is necessary to take into account the smaller depth of feelings, the rapid change of mood in children, due to which psychogenic reactions in them are shorter. We also considered in the article the reasons for the development of post-traumatic stress disorder in children of primary school age. The scientific article considered post-traumatic stress disorder at the emotional, cognitive and behavioral levels in a child of primary school age who has lost a loved one. The article examines children of primary school age with post-traumatic stress disorder who have lost a loved one – the mother, the presence of a negative emotional state (malaise, low activity and poor depressed mood) and the results were confirmed by statistical processing.

Attitude of students-psychologists to the phenomenon of «death».The article discusses the attitude of students- psychologists to social phenomenon «death». The views of prominent personalities on this phenomenon are analyzed, it is emphasized that this event has a purely individual impact on the picture of the world, the life of any person.The importance of the attitude to death as an inevitable event in the training of future psychologists is emphasized. The effectiveness of the psychologist, in this particular type of work – psychological assistance to those who have experienced the loss-death of a loved one, depends not only on his knowledge, practical skills, competence, but also, perhaps primarily on his psychological readiness for this type of work, his attitude to the phenomenon of «death». Unfortunately, practice shows that among practicing psychologists, there is a group that refuses to work with clients who have survived the death of loved ones and offer to see another psychologist or their psychological help is not effective, but they are well versed in the appropriate amount of knowledge, practical skills on this issue. The reason is the topic of «death» for the psychologist itself, which is traumatic, and the term itself is too stressful. From this follows a clear mismatch between the huge demands of clients for this type of psychological care and the psychological readiness of the psychologist for this type of work. This problem is urgent, relevant, has great practical significance, its solution will provide better training of psychologists in providing quality psychological assistance to those who have experienced a crisis of loss – the death of a loved one, to meet the demand for this type of psychological services. It is this problem has become in our field of vision and led to the choice of research topic. We set a goal to investigate the attitude of student psychologists to the social phenomenon of «death» (personal aspect). In the course of the study we conducted: psychodiagnostic techniques that showed a negative attitude towards death and fear of it. Which involves systematic, individual work and the formation of the most favorable for the individual attitude to the rubbish to its inevitability.