IJSP Number 6, 2024

123 to the war. The goals of psychological adaptation to war shifted from peacetime goals of personal growth and development to survival. In the groups, we devised a survival scale, and each time assessed the psychological resources that the war was taking away. If all your resources today are considered 100%, what portion is spent on experiencing the war? There was never a case when a participant named less than 30%. That is, at least a third of resources (based on self-assessment) goes towards adapting to the war. Often at the beginning of the war, when events on the front were very tough and when there were intense bombings of peaceful Ukrainian cities, participants said that the war takes away 60-70% of all energy. It soon became clear that the intensity of secondary trauma was stronger than that of primary trauma. The article "Trauma-informed supervision in deployed military settings" noted that "Frequent exposure to client trauma heightens the risk of secondary traumatic stress and compassion fatigue among military health care providers" [3]. The same applies to psychologists working with the civilian population during military actions. Stories about what happened to others were more disturbing and traumatic than events provoked by the war in the psychologists' own lives. We developed another exercise, "Circles of Trauma," where we assessed traumatic information from the point of view of with whom the sad event occurred: with you personally, your relatives and friends, your acquaintances, other Ukrainians, or the country as a whole. Then, we came to a temporary solution that we would only discuss events that happened to the psychologists and their close ones in our meetings. There simply wasn't the strength and energy to process other types of trauma. Psychologists suggested this temporary solution to their clients as well. Next, we invented a glass chest with a lock or a chest of dissociation. We began to put all the heavy stories and feelings into it, for which there was not enough strength and energy to process. We realized that for survival purposes, it's better to dissociate from heavy feelings than try to experience, process, and integrate them into personal history. But such dissociation should be healthy and temporary. Therefore, the chest where we put all the traumas for further work with them in the future was transparent, so we wouldn't forget about these stories and so that we could at least occasionally talk about them and wait until we had the strength to deal with them. It should be noted that in this situation of adaptation to war, the number of clients and client requests sharply increased. We felt that the entire psychological assistance system was overloaded and operating at the limits of its capabilities, yet this was still insufficient to handle client requests. We developed a system for assessing clients and their requests, classifying clients by the urgency and severity of their issues. We chose those clients who urgently needed help and whom we could realistically assist. For the first time in our joint work history, we were forced to refuse clients with severe psychological trauma, acknowledging that in