title: [Mental hygiene and its role in the health protection of children and adolescents].
abstract: The paper analyses the role of children and adolescents' psychohygiene in protection and promotion of their health. The major objectives of pediatric psychohygiene are as follows: sanitary epidemiological surveillance of the mental health and development of the rising generation; detection and classification of risk groups by mental and nervous disorders; differential psychological and medical diagnosis of impairments of mental development and health; psychostimulation and psychocorrection of appropriate mental functions by psychomedical characteristics, and, finally, rehabilitation of risk group children and adolescents in organized populations, family, and informal contact groups. The author provides a classification of the parameters characterizing the health status, tension of adaptive mechanisms and variants of environmental disadaptation of children and adolescents in accordance with health groups. He also recommends a model to set up a psychohygienic service in educational institutions, which will integrate the efforts of teachers, psychologists and physicians to optimize an educational process and to promote mental health in pupils.
authors.forename: D N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Krylov
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D008603:Mental Health; D015995:Prevalence