SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT OF CHILDREN FROM FAMILIES IN DIFFICULT LIFE CIRCUMSTANCES

Abstract

The article carries out a socio-psychological analysis of families that find themselves in difficult life circumstances, specifies the categorical apparatus according to the current legislation of Ukraine. The main factors and reasons influencing the specified status of families are determined. The main typologies of families, which potentially contribute to the upbringing of children in families classified as difficult life circumstances, are summarized. Increased attention is paid to the peculiarities of the functioning of conflict, crisis, problematic, dysfunctional, authoritarian families that have an unfavorable psychological climate. The socio-psychological features of the forcibly displaced families, which significantly replenished the category of families who found themselves in difficult life circumstances, were revealed. Children of internally displaced families deserve special psychological attention, since the traumatic experience has the ability to influence emotional, cognitive, and behavioral processes at the time when the personality is being formed. The results of an empirical study of children brought up in families that find themselves in difficult life circumstances are presented and analyzed. The results of an empirical study of children brought up in families that find themselves in difficult life circumstances are presented and analyzed. The main blocks of psychological assistance to children who find themselves in difficult life circumstances are presented: direct assistance in establishing conflict-free communication between children and parents, creating favorable conditions for the development of stress resistance; psychocorrective and developmental work with children who have a high level of stress; specialized help of psychotherapists and other specialists who work outside the educational institution. Features of socio-psychological support of children from the specified category of families are outlined. The authors came to the conclusion that today's realities of life require increased attention to families who find themselves in difficult life circumstances and the development and implementation of effective social and psychological techniques for accompanying children of a certain category of the population.