V monografii obobshcheny dannye literatury i klinicheskiy opyt avtora po probleme narusheniya psikhicheskoy adaptatsii. Rassmotreny narusheniya psikhicheskogo razvitiya, koping-povedenie, sotsial'nye i seksual'nye problemy. Osoboe vnimanie udeleno gendernym i vozrastnym osobennostyam detey,a takzhe prozhivaniyu ikh v raznykh sotsial'nykh usloviyakh. Vyrazhennost' simptomov SDVG,psikhicheskaya i sotsial'naya adaptatsiya detey otsenivalas' roditelyami i uchitelyami. Izlozhen ryad printsipov korrektsionnoy i psikhologicheskoy raboty s det'mi s SDVG. Monografiya rasschitana na defektologov, psikhologov i uchiteley.