Psychosocial Rehabilitation of Minors Caughtin Legally Significant Situations as an Issueof Cultural-Historical Psychology

Abstract

The article analyses psychosocial rehabilitation of adolescents caught in legally significant situations in relation to the professional standard. Most often, the term "rehabilitation" is defined as a system of certain measures and/or arrangements aimed at the restoration, correction, compensation of impaired mental functions or qualities. However, this approach does not allow to formulate the goal and tasks of the rehabilitation process that are relevant to legal psychology as a science and to providing practical psychological assistance to adolescents in legally significant situations. Basing on the key categories of cultural-historical psychology (such as social situation of development, new psychological formations, zone of proximal development, etc.) a model of psychosocial rehabilitation based on the replacement of the social situation of development is proposed. The article describes the process of psychosocial rehabilitation consisting of a cycle of activities of a legal psychologist and compares it to the job functions listed in the professional standard for specialists in social rehabilitation.