Psychological Well-Being of a Teenager: on the Issue of Diagnostic Tools

<p>In the Federal State Educational Standard for Basic General Education, the promotion of the psychological and social well-being of adolescents is formulated as a professional task of specialists. The article presents an analysis of the work of a school psychologist with the basic characteristics of the quality of life of adolescents - psychological well-being and sociometric status as a reliable indicator of the social well-being of students. The relevance of the article is determined by two aspects – the deepening of knowledge about the psychological and social well-being of modern adolescents, as well as the justification for the use of a convenient diagnostic case by a school psychologist. The relevance of the article is determined by two aspects – the deepening of knowledge about the psychological and social well-being of modern adolescents, as well as the justification for the use of a convenient diagnostic case by a school psychologist. The purpose of the article is to present an analysis of the use of a compact diagnostic case that can be recommended to a teacher–psychologist for rapid diagnosis of the psychological well-being of adolescents, as well as for identifying adolescents at social risk. This case includes the following methods: sociometric measurements by J.L. Moreno, resilience by S. Muddy, scale of psychological well-being (Warwick-Edinburgh), self-confidence by N.B. Astanina. 148 schoolchildren of the 8th grades of Moscow, aged 14-15 years, participated in the study. The recommended diagnostic case meets the characteristics that are significant from the point of view of a school psychologist, which complement the regulatory requirements, including those corresponding to the evidence-based approach in psychodiagnostics. Additional characteristics of the case include: the availability of methods for presentation in various formats; a study procedure that is comfortable in terms of duration and processing of results; the correctness of the content and wording of the questions.</p>