The Feldman Ecopark Centre of Psychosocial Rehabilitation is going to continue developing focus areas, which proved to be good during the previous years, and to implement several new projects in 2017.
The head of the Centre’s psychological service Tetiana Aliieva emphasized that eco-therapy is the key method used in the Centre. It is based on the use of natural factors for the creation of therapeutic environment for the patients. Eco-therapy consists of animal-assisted therapy, landscape therapy, garden therapy, walk and talk therapy, herbal therapy, aromatherapy, zootherapy, floratherapy and many other directions, and it is one of the components of treatment aimed at recovery of psychological well-being.
“One of our main tasks is to help children and teenagers with various emotional and behavioural disorders, and to support their families,” the head of the Centre’s medical service Inna Vashkite emphasized. “Our work is directed at psychosocial correction of emotional, personality and behavioural disorders; the increase of social adaptation of children in family, team and society; the prevention of psychological maladaptation; the arrangement of psychoeducational programmes, social and psychological training for parents applying various methods of eco-therapy, in particular, animal-assisted therapy; the consulting of educators and psychologists and many other things.”
The projects, which are the priority of the Centre’s activity for already several years, include “Equine-Assisted Therapy for Everyone” (assistance provided to children and adults with different diseases and disorders with the help of horses), “Let’s Take Children Away from Streets” (the programme of rehabilitation of teenagers with deviant behaviour), “War Through the Eyes of Children” (psychosocial rehabilitation of IDPs), “Let’s Restore Life Together” (assistance to ATO veterans), “Skills Upgrading” (training for psychologists).
The new projects planned for 2017 by the Feldman Ecopark Centre of Psychosocial Rehabilitation are related to the activity, which became one of the priorities due to the tragic developments in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts: the assistance to IDPs, first of all, children, the ATO soldiers and the members of their families.
The project “Ukraine in One Rhythm” will gather children and families, who were forced to move from the conflict zone to different corners of Ukraine. The regions, which already demonstrated their interest in this project and the wish to take part in it, include Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Odessa, Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts. The groups will be provided with the opportunity to undergo a rehabilitation course in the territory of Feldman Ecopark during 10 days. The course includes the complex of psychosocial rehabilitation, restorative and developing activities.
The Centre is also going to extend the work with Ukrainian soldiers by focusing on the assistance to those who undergo a course of treatment in the military hospital. It is planned to conclude an agreement with the Military Medical Clinical Centre of Northern Region in order to carry out restorative and psychological lessons for the soldiers who participated in combat operations. They will be held in the hospital and in Feldman Ecopark.
“The Centre’s background demonstrates that it is obligatory for people who took part in combat operations to undergo rehabilitation. Feldman Ecopark offers the complex of natural factors and rehabilitation activities, which favour the stabilization of psychoemotional state of people suffering from stress and pain,” Tetiana Aliieva noted.
It should be reminded that Feldman Ecopark Centre of Psychosocial Rehabilitation was opened in 2013.
