MEDICAL AND SOCIAL PORTRAIT OF TEENAGERS WHO HAVE COMMITTED OFFENSES BEING THE BASIS FOR THE CHOICE OF MEDICAL AND SOCIAL ASSISTANCE

Abstract

The paradigm of respect for individual rights and freedoms actualizes the solution of issues of providing affordable and timely medical, social and rehabilitation assistance to minors in a difficult life situation. The article presents the results of a survey of 150 juvenile delinquents placed in a Temporary Detention Center for juvenile Delinquents (TSVSNP), indicators of the clinical and functional state and analysis of the information taken from the accounting and reporting documentation of the institution. There were 74.3 % of males and 25.7 % of females in the TSVSNP; the main contingent (77.0 %) of minors was presented by persons aged 15 to 17 years; more than half of the boys and girls (55.2 %) were brought up in full families, a third part (33.7 %) in single–parent families, 11.1 % of children were brought up by guardians or in state educational institutions. Up to 89.0 % of the offenders had a history of injuries, 55.6 % — acute drug poisoning, 18.5 % — burns, 11.1 % — frostbite and overdose. 33.3 % suffered from panic attacks, 11.1 % had convulsive seizures, 3.7 % had fainting spells; 18.5 % of people experienced a pathological affect of anger, and 7.4 % of adolescents had suicidal attempts. Systematic alcohol intake was recorded in 51.6 % of respondents, systematic drug use — in 14.8 %. The data obtained made it possible to form socio-demographic, family, educational, medical, neuropsychiatric and socio-environmental life statuses of juvenile offenders, on the basis of which a typical medical and social portrait is described and optimal directions for providing rehabilitation assistance are outlined.