a direction of rehabilitation and corrective-educational work aimed at correcting disturbances in mental development or behavior in cases of dissatisfaction with one’s own life, the purpose of which is the prevention and overcoming of disturbances in mental development, primarily deviations in personality development. The tasks of psychocorrection correspond to psychological and pedagogical interventions implemented in practice by specialists in education and upbringing and, to a decisive extent, within the framework of psychotherapeutic work with children with developmental anomalies. In relation to adults, this involves the correction of individual personality and character traits (motives, interests, attitudes, values, level of aspirations) for the purpose of successful and effective self-realization in various types of activity under different conditions of the social environment. Psychocorrection is oriented toward “normal” but insufficiently developed or insufficiently adequate manifestations of the psyche for successful activity. Specific features characteristic of the psychocorrectional process are distinguished:
1) psychocorrection is oriented toward people who experience difficulties and problems in everyday life and wish to change their lives or set the goal of increasing their capacity for self-realization;
2) correction is oriented toward the healthy aspects of personality regardless of the degree of disturbance and therefore may be applied both to mentally healthy and mentally ill individuals, provided there is preservation of critical attitude toward one’s own personality and behavior;
3) psychocorrectional interventions are aimed at changing behavior, interpersonal relationships (family, collective), and the development of the client’s personality.
Psychocorrectional work has both individual and group forms.