The purpose of the study is the initial identifi cation of the structural dimensions of the problem of deterioration of health of families of demobilized soldiers participating in the ATO, and their correlation with the manifestations of post-stress psychological maladaptation of the combatants, to determine the targets for further psychocorrective work.

On the basis of the Communal Health Care Facility "Kharkiv Regional Psychoneurological Dispensary", during the period from 2015 to 2017, 100 families of demobilized soldiers who participated in combat operations — combatants and their wives were fully examined. The research was conducted with the help of clinico-psychopathological, sexologic and psychodiagnostic methods.

In most surveyed combatants and their wives, it was revealed signs of post-stress psychological maladaptation of different meaning and severity. They were manifested as signs of psychic maladaptation; behavioral maladaptation (in the form of addictive implementation of varying stages of expressiveness — from clinically defi ned disorders to harmful or dangerous use; personal, social, sexual, family maladaptation.

Despite the fact that maladaptive manifestations were observed in almost all the surveyed people, 28 % of the surveyed married couples were successful in marital relationships, while in the other 72 % there was a deterioration of the family health (sexual disorders and deformation of family interaction in the form of lack of family support from the partner and confl icts with each other).

Based on the data obtained, it is possible to make a preliminary conclusion regarding the polymodality of the phenomenon of deterioration of the health of families of soldiers, which exists at least in psychopathological, psychological, psychosocial and family dimensions of the problem. However, the available results do not allow to state that there is a cumulative/potentiating eff ect of various/mosaic-organized manifestations of post-stress psychological maladaptation in the genesis of deterioration of the health of families in this contingent. Meanwhile, the fact of the success of marital relationships in 28 % of families of demobilized soldiers is considered by us as an evidence of the presence of their interpersonal resources for the preservation of health of the family and family support, the identifi cation of which is the further tasks of our study.