FEATURES OF ASSESSMENT OF MENTAL DISORDERS AND BEHAVIOR OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS IN CONDITIONS OF TEMPORARY DETENTION CENTERS FOR JUVENILE OFFENDERS



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BACKGROUND: Juvenile delinquency requires the development of rehabilitation methods as an element of crime prevention, which is hampered by the lack of specialized specialists on the staff of Temporary Detention Centers for Juvenile Offenders. AIMS: to assess mental disorders and limitations of life activities of juvenile offenders MATERIALS AND METHODS: analysis of 77 units of documentation; questionnaire survey of 259 minors aged 14 to 18; diagnostic and pedagogical interview, physical examination, scales, experimental psychological examination; duration from 2019 to 2023. A comprehensive rehabilitation profile of a juvenile offender has been formed. RESULTS: Mental and behavioral disorders accounted for 9.0% of the pathological incidence and 37.9% of hospitalizations. Minors were registered with psychiatric outpatient clinics (22.2%) or drug addiction treatment centers (14.8%), consumed alcohol (51.8%) and drugs (14.8%), complained of panic attacks (33.3%), psychomotor agitation (18.5%), sleep disorders (22.2%), and suicide attempts (7.8%). There were disorders of will (78.4%), temperament (62.8%), sleep (59.8%), attention (57.0%), emotions (54.1%); perception (15.6%), cognitive (29.8%), and intellectual functions (32.8%); rs = 0.713. The following were noted: situational anxiety (46.6%), aggressiveness (54.6%), low stress tolerance (18.2%), emotional coldness (9.1%) or increased empathy (27.3%), average (51.9%) or above average (40.4%) level of intelligence; 7.7% had mental retardation. rs = 0.713. The ability to study at school (78.1%), cope with stress (100%), make decisions (81.8%), solve problems (72.7%), and maintain a daily routine (54.5%) were limited, rs = 0.801. Social disintegration was associated with difficulties in organizing leisure time (100%), taking care of health (72.8%), and self-care (15.3%), rs = 0.722. Limited communication: speech perception (36.3%), expressive speech (27.1%), conversation (36.3%), discussion (45.4%), maintaining formal (27.7%), friendly (27.7%), family (81.8%) relationships. rs = 0.737

            CONCLUSIONS: Juvenile offenders are characterized by moderate mental disorders, which leads to disruptions in the adaptation and social integration of the teenager

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Oksana Karpatenkova

Temporary Detention Center for Juvenile Offenders of the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region

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head of the medical unit

Russian Federation, 192148, St. Petersburg, Sedova str., house 54, building 3

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