FEATURES OF THE PEOPLE REHABILITATION POTENTIAL WITH DIFFERENT CHARACTERISTICS OF LEARNED HELPLESSNESS AND HUMAN LIFE-WORLD STABILITY

Rehabilitation potential is considered as the ability of a person to activate his biological and socio-psychological mechanisms for restoring destroyed health, employability, personal status and estate. It can be realized under the certain conditions and the consolidated assistance of rehabilitation services and society. The efforts of specialists (ergotherapists, social workers, clinical psychologists) and the closest social environment can be effective in specific conditions. The major participant of the rehabilitation activity is initially the person who needs rehabilitation. It is suggested that the problem of rehabilitation potential correlates with problem of learned helplessness of the person and problem of human life-world stability (constructive, unconstructive, stagnant). These two phenomena are similar in their definition and revealing the level of responsibility of the person for his life (Deci & Ryan, 2000). The learned helplessness as form of human life organization is the catalyst of psychological instability and somatic illness, it determines decrease in resilience of personality to harmful influences of the external environment, contributes to the development and exacerbation of psychological damages and somatic diseases of various etiologies. The helplessness is formed and “taught” gradually, under the influence of a factor of social response to failures in life events or features of somatic health rather than level of stress factor or disease nature and their objective influence on personality (Volkova, 2016). It is very important for a person to have successful experience in overcoming difficulties. Then rehabilitation activities can rely on this positive experience and provide more confident progress of a person towards the restoration of lost functions. The human life-world stability is considered in psychology as an essential indicator of the success of the life self-fulfillment and transference of abilities inherent in him (human) into reality (Loginova, 2012). The important indicator of rehabilitation success is patients’ ability to use the newly obtained functions in everyday life.