Experience in the use of cognitive psychocorrection of the emotional state of women with complicated pregnancy in the third trimester

In the article the data of experimentalpsychological investigation of pregnant women with complicated course of gestation are drawn to determine the peculiarities of their psychological status. One hundred pregnant women in the third trimesterwere examined, 64 of them demonstrated symptoms of late gestosis. The investigation revealed high level of both reactive and personal anxiety in women with complicated course of pregnancy. All the women of this group were subjected to supporting psychotherapy, which was directed to the decreasing psychological troubles. The basic aim of cognitive psychocorrection was to overcome different systemic presuppositions, to help the pregnant women to elaborate an alternative behavioral pattern and to change their attitude to themselves, to form the sense of self-confidence. The results received testify to the expediency of including psychotherapy (supporting and cognitive psychocorrection) into the complex of treatment.