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The article examines the importance of adaptive sports in the process of social integration and adaptation of war veterans and combatants to the conditions of peaceful life. It was determined that after the return to civilian life of veterans and participants in hostilities, a period of adaptation to new features of life, conditions of social interaction, formation of personal skills in solving new challenges awaits. It is highlighted that the process of social adaptation of veterans and participants in hostilities is a complete complex of medical, physical, psychological, socio-pedagogical measures aimed at restoring health, psycho-emotional state and working capacity. The possibilities and tasks of adaptive sports as an effective and efficient tool for successful socialization are presented, which promotes physical rehabilitation, the development of mental and emotional recovery skills, and well-being, and participation in adaptive sports is one of the essential tools for the rehabilitation and social integration of war veterans, participants in hostilities. It was established that the general level of development of Ukrainian society, the degree of understanding of the importance of the problem of social integration and adaptation of veterans and combatants to peaceful life determines the model of their social adaptation in the country. However, social integration includes not only psychological adaptation, but also the need for multifunctional changes: moral, physical, social.
Kashuba et al. (Fri,) studied this question.