ОСОБЕННОСТИ НЕВРОТИЧЕСКОГО СОСТОЯНИЯ МАТЕРИ РЕБЕНКА С ЦЕРЕБРАЛЬНЫМ ПАРАЛИЧОМ

Abstract

The research topicality is determined by the state policy priorities in the field of preservation, strengthening and restoration of mental and psychological health as important indicators of the individual’s quality of life as well as the development of preventive measures aimed at protecting health of mothers and children, developing a support system for families with children with mental and physical needs, improving their living conditions and strengthening the institution of the family. The goal of the research is to identify the neurotic features of a mother whose child is suffering from cerebral palsy. From 2006 to 2009 in the study participated 132 respondents: 66 mothers raising children with cerebral palsy, and 66 mothers of neurotypical children. The restudy in 2015-2017 was conducted on a sample of 96 mothers, 48 respondents in each group. Research methods we used are theoretical analysis of literature, psych diagnostic methods, longitudinal method, correlation research as well as methods of mathematical statistics. In the process of analyzing the results for mothers raising children with cerebral palsy there has been revealed a painful nature of the detected neurotic state characteristics followed by positive dynamics but their values are low and vary within its margins. On the contrary, the indicators of neurotic state characteristics for mothers of neurotypical children vary within the norm along with the statistically significant manifestation of their anxieties and worries. Neurotic depression of MG66 respondents occupies a dominant position in the structural hierarchy of the scales of the questionnaire which eventually gives way to the manifestation of anxiety and hysterical type of response to life situations. The structure of neurotic state is characterized by a differentiation of the respondents from main group, while in control group it is more integrated. Over time the structure of neurotic state characteristics in the main group respondents retains relative stability, and in the control group respondents it is transformed, complicated and differs in hierarchy and greater differentiation: individual variables acquire the status of autonomous ones where the additional research is required. Statistically signifi-cant differences in the severity of neurotic state characteristics for the main group and control group respondents in the time perspective were found. The neurotic state characteristics of mothers whose children have cerebral palsy are characterized by different severity levels of indicators in all structural components with their positive dynamics in the time perspective, the predominance of neurotic depression and its changeability by anxiety and over-reaction to everyday life situations.