Radchenko M. Personal self-regulation of adults of families with mentally retarded chidren.

The thesis presented is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of personal self-regulation of the adults having mentally retarded children under conditions of chronic extremity. It has been shown that under the influence of many unfavourable socio - psychological factors those adults form in themselves specific personality traits, create special vision and evaluation of their environment. There have been revealed three following stages of the studied adults' adaptation to unfavourable conditions. New formations and compensating mechanisms have been distinguished at each stage. Parents of mentally handicapped children have been classified into 8 types. A training-course of personality growth which takes into account the specific features of personality self-regulation of mentally handicapped children's parents has been worked out and successfully tested.