Abstract:
The article covers the main approaches to the construction of a social and psychological model of the consequences of being held in captivity. It is noted that in today's society of Ukraine there are still social stereotypes, prejudices, misconceptions about prisoners of war. Stereotypes that contain the explicit or implicit evaluation of former prisoners of war as incapable of a full-fledged social life, and a certain attitude towards them, are in essence a social stigma that society imposes on a former prisoner. Captivity is a deep psychological crisis for a serviceman that, in a peaceful life, will be manifested in the comprehension and experience of the social stereotypes about prisoners of war, assimilation of the social stigma of the prisoner, the disharmonization of the self-concept and violation of personal and social identity, that is accompanied by social maladaptation of the form prisoner of war
