Keyword: «distress»

The paper analyzes problems of individual’s adaptation in terms of system-integrative properties of its structure. Adaptation as a complex of multi-faceted and multi-level process is considered by the authors in terms of a systematic approach that allows to analyze the complex of psychological components of personality that are related to each other and form an integral unity.

The paper presents a model of personality health/pathology as a solution of intrapsychic and interpsychic problems. In the model, true needs transformed into true or pathological motives, conflict between them and frustration of them are considered as the mechanisms of personal health/pathology.

Due to the significance of the problem of employees’ psycho-emotional overload, the article attempts to reveal the essence of “stress” concept, to study the stages of stress development, some reasons for the occurrence of stressful situations in professional activity, and the ways to reduce the negative influence of stressful factors on the physical and psychological health of personnel. The author shows the necessity of taking into account individual psychological characteristics of an individual when choosing effective means of emotional-psychological relaxation. The article presents an example of solving the urgent for the transport company task of maintaining health and high performance of employees, whose work is connected with regular psycho-emotional overload, using a specially worked out method of psycho-regulatory training.