Sem'e prinadlezhit osobaya rol' v sotsial'no-sredovoy adaptatsii i sozdanii atmosfery, v kotoroy prozhivaet i vospityvaetsya boleyushchiy epilepsiey rebenok. Postanovka diagnoza epilepsiya, osobenno rebenku, yavlyaetsya ser'eznoy psikhologicheskoy nagruzkoy dlya rodnykh. Psikhologicheskaya reaktsiya sem'i na zabolevanie odnogo iz ee chlenov opredelyaetsya ne tol'ko ob"ektivno stressornymi vneshnimi faktorami, no i ikh individual'nymi psikhologicheskimi adaptatsionno-kompensatornymi mekhanizmami, imeyushchimisya u nikh predstavleniyami o zabolevanii, kotorye vo mnogom formiruyutsya pod vliyaniem sotsial'noy stigmatizatsii v otnoshenii bol'nykh epilepsiey. Provedenie informatsionnykh, psikhoobrazovatel'nykh i psikhoprofilakticheskikh meropriyatiy dlya materey (roditeley), napravlennaya na optimizatsiyu terapevticheskoy pomoshchi detyam, boleyushchim epilepsiey, pozvolyayut snizit' u rodstvennikov uroven' samostigmatizatsii, povysit' psikhologicheskuyu ustoychivost' i effektivnost' psikhologicheskoy adaptatsii k stressornym vliyaniyam.