Mental states of convicted women held in places of deprivation of liberty with young children and the possibilities of their psychological correction

The article examines the specifics of the mental states of convicted women held in places of detention with young children and some features of their psychological correction .Purpose: Based on the study of the mental states of convicted women held in places of detention with young children, consider the possibilities of their psychological correction .Methods: analysis of scientific sources, diagnostics (testing, analysis of personal files), methods of mathematical statistics (Wilcoxon T-test) .Results: in the course of an empirical study conducted on the basis of correctional institutions of the penal system, it was found that convicted women in correctional institutions with young children are dominated by anxiety, despondency, pessimism, anxiety, depression, passivity, irritation . The identified mental states cause vegetative disorders (problems with sleep, appetite, pain); changes in behavior (lethargy, low tone, fatigue, slowness, phobic disorders, feelings of guilt) . Based on the identified features of the mental states of the convicted women, we have developed a psychocorrection program .Conclusions: the conducted diagnostics showed that convicted women are characterized by pronounced negative mental states, which are associated with a number of emotional-affective, cognitive and somatic disorders . Based on the results of the study, an author’s psychocorrective program was developed aimed at stabilizing the mental states of convicted women held in places of detention with young children .