Psycho-Physiological Approaches to Assessing the Effectiveness of a Comprehensive Program of Psychological Correction on the Basis of Body-Oriented Psychotherapy

Abstract

In the present time the methods of psychotherapy for correction of prenosological states have no objective criteria in the selection of targets of influence, and in evaluating the effectiveness of applied psychotherapeutic techniques. In this regard, the purpose of this study is devoted to a psycho-physiological evaluation of effectiveness of the developed complex body-oriented psychotherapy. On the basis of the developed psychotherapeutic techniques of body-oriented effects, the authors surveyed 70 respondents of dangerous professions. The exchange control efficiency was carried out according to variational pulsometry by Baevsky R. M. and spectral analysis of heart rhythm, the complex physiological and psychological methods (i.e. «Simple visual-motor reaction», «Reaction to a moving object»). The use of the developed program complex psychological correction on the basis of body-oriented psychotherapy, consisting of successive relaxation techniques and mobilization, allows to reduce a functional stress adaptation mechanisms, an emotional stress and the severity of stress reactions in persons with psycho-physiological disorders, and also to raise the functional reserves of the organism, the functional state of the nervous system and stress (statistically significant dynamics of the indicator "Stability of reaction", "Total deviation from autologous standards) in healthy people. It is stated a vegeto-stabilizing action of the developed complex (according to the assessment of HRV).