[The role of group psychotherapy in combined modality therapy of juvenile endogenous depression]. / Mesto gruppovogo psikhokorrektsionnogo metoda v kompleksnoi terapii iunosheskikh éndogennykh depressii.

The paper presents the study in of the combined psychopharmaco-psychocorrective method designed specially for juvenile patients with endogenic depressive disorders. Psychocorrective measures included the method of "rehabilitation training of social habits" used on the stage of hospital therapy and psychocorrective training according to "social support" method used in group psychotherapy outpatiently. A 5 year follow-up study performed in 110 showed that psychotherapy has increased efficiency of the therapy in terms of both reduction of clinic disorders in the acute period and prophylaxis of the relapses as well as social readaptation.