Prevention of neurosis in parents of children with disabilities

According to statistics, for every 10,000 healthy children, there are more than 250 children with disabilities in developed countries. Official data of the World Health Organization confirms these figures. In the Russian Federation, 568,000 disabled children were registered in 2013, and by 2020 their number has increased to 688,000. The author examines the main psychological problems of families with children with disabilities, as well as the therapeutic use of methods for preventing neurotic disorders in children. The article analyzes the possibilities of innovative types of neurosis prevention – with the help of psycho-hygiene and psychological cultural studies. The author concludes that disability and concomitant diseases are a powerful stressful factor that forms a complex of experiences, negative psychological deformities in both children and their parents. Deeply correlated psychological complexes actively influence the processes of therapeutic and rehabilitation activities of the child and the adaptation of the family negatively affecting the positive result in every possible way.