PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF ADOLESCENTS' ADAPTATION AND DEVIANT BEHAVIOR IN WAR CONDITIONS

Abstract

The study of the behavior of adolescents in extreme situations of war, the features of their adaptation and maladaptation in conditions of chronic stress and constant threat to life are important tasks of modern domestic science and practice. The meaning of deviant behavior lies in actions or behavior that contradict social norms or expectations. Social norms are unwritten rules that society or culture considers acceptable. Any behavior that violates social norms or formal laws is considered deviant. We argue that in conditions of war, adolescents experience both primary and secondary traumatization, which, in turn, affect the behavior of adolescents, often deviant and extreme. The results of the empirical study revealed that the adaptation indicators of girls and boys generally correspond to relatively successful adaptation, that is, all adolescents in the vast majority need psychological counseling for specific requests.Adolescents noted that they are concerned about eating disorders, in particular during and after shelling and non-suicidal self-harm as a way to attract attention to themselves and reduce the level of anxiety caused by chronic extremism. It has been established that during war, the abnormal is normalized, we can say that we are forced to adapt to the conditions of chronic extremism, which is difficult to do in the absence of previously formed patterns of behavior, so deviance, especially in the behavior of adolescents, may be a stage of adaptation to the conditions of toxic chronic stress caused by war. It has been found that currently there is a high risk not of helping adolescents with the so-called deviant behavior, but of stigmatizing them, not of increasing trust, but of strengthening totalitarian control.Under such conditions, the study of effective methods of providing psychological assistance to adolescents during war becomes relevant.