INCREASING THE HARDINESS OF ADOLESCENTS BY METHODS OF CATATYMIC-IMAGINATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY

Abstract

The ability of an individual to successfully cope with unfavorable environmental conditions while showing high resistance to stressors is called hardiness. Nowadays, having a high and stable hardiness in a person is more important and necessary than ever before. That is why modern psychological science is so interested in studying this phenomenon, its role in maintaining mental health and methods of influencing hardiness. A special role in this problem is traditionally assigned to the study of adolescent hardiness and methods of its correction.

The purpose of our study was to investigate the possibility of increasing the level of adolescent hardiness by methods of catatim-imaginative psychotherapy developed by the German psychotherapist H. Leuner. In turn, the main idea of our study was to preserve the mental health of adolescents by increasing their hardiness.

The scientific significance of the work consists in the fact that it expands the ideas about the role of hardiness in maintaining mental health, theoretically substantiates the advantages of individual psychotherapeutic work with adolescents who have a low level of hardiness. The practical value of the study is the disclosure of the effectiveness of methods of catatim-imaginative psychotherapy for the promotion of mental health of adolescents.

Theoretical, psychodiagnostic methods and techniques were applied in the study, mathematical methods of data processing were used to evaluate the results of the study. The results of the conducted research showed high efficiency of the methods of catatim-imaginative psychotherapy to increase the level of adolescents' hardiness. The results obtained can be used in the practical activities of child psychologists and educational psychologists of schools and colleges.

Key words: hardiness, mental health, catatim-imaginative psychotherapy.