Problems of self-relation and formation of socially oriented attitudes in psychiatric patients undergoing compulsory treatment

Abstract

Problems of current interest relevant to compulsory treatment of persons with mental disorders are reviewed in the paper with special emphasis on objectives common for inpatients of conventional psychiatric hospitals and mandatory treatment units. Also highlighted are social factors and phenomena negatively impacting on the formation of adequate positive self-relation, integration of the of mentally ill person into the system of social relations. Challenges facing the psychologist at various stages of compulsory treatment in the context of socio-psychological and clinical problems of the patient are analyzed, as well as differentiated approaches are suggested to rehabilitation and intensive self-cultivation (motivational and semantic sphere) depending on the intensity of mental disorder and deficit areas of the patients undergoing compulsory treatment in a general hospital setting.