[The place of psychological correction in the process of rehabilitating schizophrenics]

Psychological correction as a well organized system of psychological impacts is one of the main components of the process of social and psychological rehabilitation of mental patients. Psychological correction is particularly important in the organization of rehabilitational work with schizophrenic patients because of disorders of social behaviour typical of such patients. According to the findings of the study on spontaneous adaptation in schizophrenic patients, the following tasks have been set up to optimize social behaviour with the help of psychocorrective methods: the search for intact structures in the emotional-motivational sphere, purposeful formation of social behaviour, and the search for the individual social niche. Psychological correction in patients with slowly progressive schizophrenia is constructed in the form of a diagnostic-corrective complex consisting of experimental-psychological techniques aimed at determining individual psychological characteristics of patients and a wider range of techniques of psychological impact including both individual and group forms of psychological corrective work.