LIFE MEANINGS FORMATION AS A FACTOR OF DRUG ADDICTS BEHAVIOR CORRECTION

Abstract

The actuality of this problem is due to the significant increase of people who use drugs number in recent years in our country. Drug use significantly affects a person’s psychological health (causes psychological maladaptation, loss of life meaning, abandonment and helplessness feelings, antisocial behavior manifestations, addictive behaviors, focus on constant pleasure predominance, etc.). The psychologist’s practical work with the drug addict’s meaning sphere acquires special significance if we consider meaning as the highest integrative basis of personality, which determines the specifics of its consciousness and behavior, goal setting and lifestyle. The purpose of this work is to theoretically substantiate the life meanings phenomenon as a factor in the drug addict’s behavior and to create a program of their psychological correction.