PSYCHO-EMOTIONAL HEALTH OF TEENAGERS AS THE BASIS FOR THE PERSONAL TOLERANCE FOR THE FACTORS PREDISPOSING A SUICIDE

The paper considers the topical issue of psycho-emotional health of teenagers and early recognition of teenagers belonging to a suicidal behavior risk group. The paper covers the problems of prophylaxis, psychological correction and psycho-emotional health of the risk group teenagers and such issues of awareness-building activities among adults, parents and teaching staff as the psychological markers of adolescence age, the relationship between parents and children. The authors provide recommendations on prophylaxis of suicides among teenagers.

Inadequate attention to the problem of emotional well-being at the early stages of a personality development leads to the risk of teenagers’ disadaptation. Early and high quality diagnostics of psycho-emotional health of children allows taking adequate corrective actions to prevent undesirable tendencies in a personality development, various abnormal behavior forms, and the problems in school and out-of-school activities of teenagers, including suicidal behavior. For the purpose of early recognition of teenagers bent on self-destruction, the authors carried out an experiment that is considered in this paper. The received experience will be useful for the experts in developmental psychology and pedagogy, parents and supervising teachers.