Psychological and pedagogical support of drug addicted prisoners: analysis of the problem, experience and outlooks for research
A number of drug addicted prisoners have increased in penal system of Russia for the last decade. Optimization of a number of penal system employees; increased loading on psychological, educational, medical and supervisory services; lack of stuff’s professional competences in organization of diagnostic, preventive, educational, psycho correctional work with drug addicted prisoners; absence of integrated conception of psychological and pedagogical support of drug addicted persons - all these conditioned the necessity for revision and improvement of the system of rendering support to addicts. The conception of penal system development up to 2020-th points out the necessity of searching and implementation of new individual forms of work that will render targeted psychological and pedagogical support to every convicted person subject to his socio-demographic, penal and psychological peculiarities; improvement of scientific and methodological level of psycho diagnostic and psycho correction; upgrading of scientific and technical support to psychologist’s work; optimization of diagnostic tools and volume of psychological work; development of psychotherapeutic aspects in psychologist’s activity; creation of departments for socio-psychological rehabilitation for prisoners with drug and alcohol addictions, mental abnormalities to render targeted psychological support. In modern scientific literature there are researches of certain aspects of personality of drug addicted convicts but system (integral) theoretical and methodological foundation for the problem of support of drug addicted prisoners was not the subject of research. It is considered that psychological and pedagogical support of addicted prisoners is a kind of psychological, pedagogical and social support that are rendered to addicted persons by penal system staff and is aimed at deliverance from drug addiction, rehabilitation and social adaptation. Psychological and pedagogical support includes not only monitoring of addict’s mental processes and personal characteristics but psychological and pedagogical prevention, psychological correction and educational work as well.