[Current informational technologies in the structure of medical and psychological tasks of school education]. / Sovremennye informatsionnye tekhnologii v strukture mediko-psikhologicheskikh zadach shkol'nogo obrazovaniia.

Prospects for equipment of present-day school with computing machinery allow fresh approaches to be applied to the improvement of means for diagnosis and health prophylaxis in children and to professional orientation. Automatic systems have been developed for diagnosing diseases and monitoring the sociomental health of children and the adaptation of junior and middle schoolchildren to school activities. The systems provide a real way of successfully following the development of major mental functions for prenosological diagnosis of detected abnormalities and their subsequent correction. An automatic system for professional orientation of middle- and senior-form pupils has been devised on the basis of mental diagnostic testing of the schoolchildren's professional orientation, interests, inclinations, psychophysiological and personality traits.