Problem of anosognosia in female alcoholism: targets and efficiency of therapeutic intervention

Objective: to identify and test psychodiagnostic tools capable by the way of overcoming the alcohol anosognosia in women to reveal targets of personalized psychotherapy, to evaluate in dynamics the anosognosia at baseline and after therapy. Materials. Clinical-dynamic and experimental-psychological examination of 30 women with alcohol dependence (F10.2) aged 44.35±7.1 years under therapy at Addictive States Department of Mental Health Research Institute was carried out. Methods. Questionnaire “Alcohol Anosognosia”, Test of Life-Purpose Orientations, Hamilton Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Results. This paper presents approbation of complex psychodiagnostic tools capable by the way of overcoming the alcohol anosognosia in women to solve tasks of revealing the “targets” of personalized psychotherapeutic intervention and to evaluate the anosognosia in dynamics -at baseline and after therapy, to evaluate its efficiency. Conclusion. The study showed appropriateness and efficiency of the use of some psychodiagnostic tools for evaluation of results of the therapy, which success in female alcoholism to significant degree depends on targeted therapeutic work with anosognosia at cognitive, emotional and motivational levels and correction of value-meaning aspects of motivation to treatment.