Psychological and Educational Work with Adolescent Delin-quents with Antisocial Psychopathies

Abstract

This material is focused on the problems of psychological and educational work with juve-nile delinquents who showed various types of antisocial psychopathies. It describes the main characteristics, features and properties of the most common types of antisocial psy-chopathies identified in adolescents with deviant behavior. Regarding each type of such psychopathies, appropriate forms of psychological and educational influence were proposed to address the personal qualities and the worldview of adolescent delinquents, to correct their behavior and improve their social adaptation. The author concludes that in the process of using the proposed work practices it should be borne in mind that disorders and devia-tions in adolescents with antisocial psychopathies manifest most strongly in the emotional-volitional component of their personality structure impacting its entirety at the same time. This fact, in turn, necessitates intensifying efforts from the subjects of psychological and educational work to correct the mental set, world outlook orientations, priorities and life goals of the children in their care and to instill in them true and socially approvable atti-tudes towards social communications.