Zhanna A. Shutkina

the chapter is devoted to the study of personal and behavioral characteristics of adolescents experiencing difficulties in social adaptation. Theoretical approaches to the concept of "social adaptation of personality" are considered, characteristics of types of adaptation, its structural components are given. Special attention is paid to the socio-psychological disadaptation of adolescents. Classifications of types of disadaptation are given, the causes of adolescent maladaptation are highlighted. Based on the results of an ascertaining experiment in which 142 adolescents with normotypic devel...