The structure of emotional burnout, specific of coping strategies and emotional regulation in the mothers of children with autism spectrum disorders are considered. The comparison group includes mothers of neurotypical children. Mothers of children with ASD demonstrate increasing of first emotional burnout phase while they haven’t revealed trends of distancing and alienation from the child. They often use a cognitive reappraisal of problem situations, suppression unpleasant thoughts associated with the child, to accept the existing situations as inevitable. Important resources to cope with stress are the achievements of a child (developing any skills), the presence of a healthy child in the family, in some cases - social support, communication with other mothers of children with ASD.

The article is devoted to the study of self-appraisal, anxiety and coping strategies in young men with drug addiction. The sample is consisted of 29 young men aged from 18 to 30 years with drug addiction, located in the rehabilitation center «Bereg Nadezhdy» («The Coast of Hope») in Novosibirsk. The control group includes 36 male students of Novosibirsk State University aged from 18 to 22 years without drug addiction. The methods «Personal Differential» (2002) (as adapted in The St. Petersburg Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute), «Integrative anxiety test (ITT)» (adapted by A. P. Bizyuk, L. I. Wasserman, B. V. Iovlev, 2001) and Ways of Coping Questionnaire by R. Lazarus and S. Folkman (1988) were used for the psychodiagnostic study. According to the results obtained, the self-appraisal of young men with drug addiction is quite unstable and changes sharply, depending on their condition, location and treatment attitude. At the time of abstinence withdrawal, self-appraisal of drug addicts is characterized by the idealized image of themselves, illusiveness, inability to critical evaluation of their characteristics and the denial of the existence of psychological problems. The level of situational anxiety and personal anxiety revealed in this group indicates the presence of maladjustment both in inter- or intraindividual relations, and also the presence of disharmony with the environment as a whole. In the structure of anxiety, young men with drug addiction express emotional discomfort, the feeling of incomprehensible threat and general concern of the future against the background of increased emotional sensitivity. The methods of coping behavior in the group of drug addicts are accompanied by a feeling of guilt and dissatisfaction with themselves in the group, by the use of primitive, infantile defense mechanisms of coping with stress such as distancing, avoidance, confrontive coping and ignoring the effective solution of the problem in the form of its positive reappraisal.

The article analyzes publications on postnonclassical psychology indexed in Scopus. In total, 30 publications were identified in Scopus. They met the following conditions: (1) they contain terms (in the title, the abstract and/or in the author’s key words) which were used as search topic: «post-nonclassical», «post-nonclassical» «postnonclassical»: (2) their subject area is psychology. All publications were published between 2002 and 2017. It was shown that the vast majority of articles on postnonclassical psychology are published by Russian authors and / or in Russian journals. Three thematic clusters in the field of studying autism are highlighted by constructing the terms map based on keyword analysis. It was revealed that the share of publications on post-nonclassical psychology does not exceed one percent. The bibliometric analysis shows that the assertion that modern psychology is a post-nonclassical science is not supported by quantitative data.

The article presents the results of the adaptation of the questionnaire Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers, Revised with Follow-Up (M-CHAT-R/F) for early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in the Russian-speaking sample (n = 105). Evaluated the psychometric properties of Russian version of the questionnaire: reliability for internal consistency, the construct validity of the competitive the validity of the criteria, the current criteria of validity. According to the results of the adaptation M-CHAT-R/F questionnaire has good psychometric indicators. This demonstrates advisability of conducting full version of questionnaire with Follow-UP (M-CHAT-R/F). Due to a big popularity and broad usage of this questionnaire abroad, it seems perspective to compare the results obtained on Russian sample with foreign researches.

The results of approbation of the Russian-language version of questionnaire «Engagement with beauty scale» (Diessner R., Solom R. D., Frost N. K., Parsons L., Davidson J.) are presented. Engagement with beauty is defined as the degree of involvement in interaction with the beauty of nature, art and the moral beauty of a person. The basic philosophical idea on which American researchers relied on the creation of a technique is the unity of the three components of being - truth, beauty and good. Checking the internal structure of the questionnaire “Susceptibility to Beauty” by means of confirmatory factor analysis showed that it has a three-factor structure corresponding to the original author's model. The conducted psychometric analysis testifies that this questionnaire has good internal consistency, retest reliability, convergent, discriminant and criterial validity. Additional interesting results were obtained on the relationship between personal factors and sensitivity to beauty in general, and, in particular, to the beauty of nature, art and the moral beauty of a person. The results make it possible to consider the Russian-language version of the «Engagement with beauty scale» as a reliable and valid instrument for assessment of engagement with beauty.

The article examines two of the most commonly used depression questionnaires PHQ-9 and BDI-II. This study aimed to analyze results and psychometric properties of BDI-II and PHQ-9 among 392 students and stuff of various Novosibirsk universities. According to PHQ-9, 8 people belong to the group of severe depression, 38 people belong to the group of moderately severe depression. According to the questionnaire BDI-II, 20 people belong to the group of severe depression, 50 people belong to group of moderate severe depression. The results provide evidence of good and excellent reliability of PHQ-9 and BDI-II (Cronbach's alpha was 0,83 for PHQ-9 and 0,905 for BDI-II). Convergent validity was ρ = 0,71, p < 0,001. The study confirmed one-factor structure of PHQ-9. The factor structure of BDI-II was not established, although the two-factor model represents the best fit to the data. Such a difference in the levels of depression and the lack of BDI-II factor structure in this study may be due to the fact that this questionnaire does not reflect the specific components of depression, but it`s reflect features of the student sample. The possibility of applying the BDI-II questionnaire to a non-clinical sample is discussed.

Objective. Japan’s hikikomori phenomenon (acute and/or severe social withdrawal behavior among youth) is considered as growing internationalsocio-psychological problem, more youth social withdrawal cases in different countries have been discovered recently. The purpose of this paper is to consolidate the results of studies conducted in Japan and other countries to provide a better understanding of the phenomenon of hikikomori.

Method. This review examined the current available scientific information on youth social withdrawal in the academic databases: Scopus, ScienceDirect, Web of Science and PubMed. Results.

As a result of our analysis of the studies we synthesized the information into the following categories: (1) definitions of hikikomori, (2) hikikomori and mental disorder, (3) developmental theories, (4) factors associated with youth social withdrawal and (5) interventions for socially withdrawn youths. Accordingly, there are diverse and controversial definitions for youth social withdrawal. Studies of youth social withdrawal are based on models that lead to quite different conclusions. Researchers with an attachment perspective view youth social withdrawal as a negative phenomenon, whereas those who adopt Erikson’s developmental theory view it more positively as a process of seeking self-knowledge. Different interventions for socially withdrawn youths have been developed, mainly in Japan, but evidence-based practice is almost non-existent.

Conclusion. The analysis demonstrated the heterogeneity of the phenomenon of hikikomori, different subgroups were identified. Researchers proposed a theoretical framework that views youth social withdrawal as resulting of interaction between psychological, family, sociocultural, behavioral and biological factors. Future validation of the framework will help drive forward advances in theory and interventions for youth social withdrawal as an emerging issue in developed countries.

Family education is described as one of the formats for obtaining a basic education. The research is based on interviews with parents who chose family education for their children. The statistical data are analyzed and compared with the data from interviews. The scope of family education in modern Russia is described in general. The problems of interaction between parents and schools, the process of teaching children and contacts with other parents who have chosen family education are described. The motives for choosing a family education are considered.

The article deals with the problem of sensory integration, as well as with issues related to the adaptation of children in the surrounding world, their ability to understand what is happening around them and their ability to give feedback on what is happening. Contemporary works in this area show that the malfunction of sensory information processing is increasing in children in an unfavorable environment. Consequently, the influence of the environment can and should be corrected by changing situations and different stimuli.