THE RESEARCH OF GENERAL SELF-ESTEEM AMONG MENTALLY RETARDED TEENAGERS
The article covers the problem of mentally challenged teenagers self-esteem in comparison with their normal intellect peers. The article analyses the general self-esteem of mentally challenged teenagers and substantiates the urgency and practical importance of the problem. There is also a description of methods of psychological- pedagogical research of general self-esteem that enlarges the tools of Russian oligophrenopedagogy and psychology. The ways of application of the received results are outlined in practical oligophrenopedagogy and psychology.