FEATURES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CORRECTION OF EMOTIONAL BURNOUT AND PROFESSIONAL DEFORMATION OF THE PERSONALITY OF CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS

The article discusses the results of a study of the symptoms of emotional burnout and professional deformation of correctional officers. The study involved 140 employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service «Correctional colony No. 2» and «Correctional colony No. 6» of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Ryazan region, who carry out their professional activities in the security department, in the center for labor adaptation of convicts, in the department of educational work with convicts. The psychodiagnostic tools selected for the study make it possible to measure and analyze the severity of the respondents' symptoms of emotional burnout and professional deformation. The study used the "Methodology for diagnosing the level of emotional burnout" by V. Boyko, the questionnaire "Professional burnout" by N. Vodopyanova, the questionnaire "Strategies for overcoming stressful situations" by S. Hobfall, and the Questionnaire for Psychophysiological Maladaptation by O. Rodina. Some of the identified patterns of the formation and development of emotional burnout and professional deformation of the personality of correctional officers are described: the features of social interaction in a stressful situation play a significant role in the formation of professional deformation; the feeling of fatigue and emotional exhaustion is one of the key factors in the formation and development of the studied negative conditions. The tasks and directions of psychological correction of symptoms of emotional burnout and professional deformation in correctional officers are substantiated: development of skills of self-regulation and self-control; development of stress tolerance; development of communicative competence and training in strategies of constructive interaction in extreme situations; training in rules and methods of restoring psychological resources and dealing with stress; expanding the area of awareness of the impact of the specifics of professional activity on the personality of an employee and individual responsibility for their own psychological conditions and deformations.