Keyword: «prevention of suicidal behavior»

One of the global problems at present is suicide as a manifestation of deviant behavior in society. According to the World Health Organization, suicidal events among people aged 15–29 have doubled over the past 15 years, and they occupy leading positions in developed countries. Suicide takes the 4th place among adolescent mortality in the world after injuries, infectious and oncological diseases. Russia takes one of the leading positions on completed suicides among young people. There is an urgent need for the prevention of suicidal behavior among young people in our country. The optimal system of suicide prevention, intervention and postvention in practice unites the systems of education, health care, social protection, internal affairs, religious institutions, the efforts of non-governmental organizations, and also ensures a good connection between them. The main directions of prevention should be the early diagnosis of suicidal risk groups, the prevention of alcoholism and drug addiction among the population, the establishment of a full complement of suicide prevention services in each region of the country.

The increase in the number of suicide attempts among adolescents requires us to work out the measures for early prevention of the risk of suicidal behavior. The relevance of the article lies in the search for effective methodologically grounded ways of psychological prevention of suicidal behavior among adolescents. The purpose of the article is to present the author's approach to reducing the risk of developing suicidal behavior in adolescents by means of the resource state training "Emotional stability". This approach is based on the integration of several theoretical and methodological ideas: the concept of A.G. Ambrumova and V.A. Tikhorenko on maladjustment in conditions of microsocial conflict as the reason for the formation of suicidal behavior; understanding the University resource states 20.35; method of socio-psychological training as an effective method of organizing psychological work with adolescents. The training is based on the key idea of teaching methods of self-regulation and actualization of resource states. On the basis of the above-mentioned ideas, a series of trainings on resource states was designed as a way to prevent suicidal behavior in adolescence. The article presents the results of the training "Emotional stability" testing in work with adolescents aged 14-17 years with different risk levels of developing suicidal behavior. Based on the results of testing, the training has proven its effectiveness for the early prevention of suicidal behavior in adolescents. The materials of the article are significant for practicing psychologists working with different categories of adolescents.