FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: psychotherapeutics is conducted; that is combined with laboratory-diagnostic examination aiming at detect the adolescents using drugs. That is followed by a session of individual psychotherapy with the adolescents involving discussing the findings and detecting the characterological personality. The adolescent is involved into virtual simulation of life scenarios concerning the behavioural changes accompanying the drug consumption or following a sober way of life. The session of individual psychotherapy is followed by taking an adolescent's photo for creating a similar character. The photo is commented as a beginning of the virtual simulation of the life scenarios in a combination with indirect suggestion of the sober way of life. Emotional-stress suggestion of required complete abstinence is combined with presenting a video sequence showing negative consequences of the drug consumption on the basis of the adolescent's photo. The emotional-stress suggestion is followed by suggestion aiming at deactuating the presented negative images of the shown video sequence by virtual reduction of image definition, brightness and size, and at achieving the desired positive life goals.
EFFECT: method enables providing more effective prevention of the drug consumption by the adolescents by the individual psychotherapy and emotional-stress suggestion with the use of the adolescent's photo.
5 cl, 4 ex
