Resilience of Journalists in Times of War: Psychological Aspect

3 May 2022. Speaker: Olena STUPAK, psychotherapist with over 20 years of experience, trainer of the Ukrainian Union of Psychotherapists in Psychodrama. Lecturer at the Ukrainian Psychotherapeutic University. Full member of the NGONGO
non-governmental organization "Ukrainian Association of Specialists in Overcoming the Consequences of Psycho-Traumatic Events". Since 2014 she is involved in the activities of the Psychological Crisis Service (psychological support and correctional work with internally displaced persons, combatants, members of their families, family members of the victims).

During the event the following aspects were highlighted:

• the risk factors inherent in the work of a journalist, the danger of "witness injury", think about how to protect yourself;
• the mental mechanisms of response to danger, their impact on our behavior and ability to think and analyze;
• specific tools for mastering own attacks of anxiety, apathy, anger;
• own resources for overcoming unproductive states due to stress.

Moderator: Andrii Kulykov, Head of the Commission on Journalistic Ethics.

The video is part of the series of online events initiated by the Commission on Journalistic Ethics (CJE) together with OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine to strengthen the capacity of journalists to work during a martial law period.