The article addresses to the study of the possibilities and necessity to acquire psychological self-regulation (PSR) skills by juveniles, as this period of ontogenesis is a crisis, which can be unstable, transitional, but at the same time it is a period of formation. Meanwhile, if the age-related physiological and psychological features of adolescence are sufficiently explained in the theoretical aspect, then the adolescent aspects of PSR have only just begun to be explored, and the motivational and practical components have not been developed in detail. All of the above mentioned can be determined as the actuality of the problem.

The purpose of the article is to justify the need to master psychological self-regulation techniques for juveniles; to draw attention to this problem; to outline competent approaches to motivation and basic practical technologies.

Research results. The article carries out a thorough analysis of the main works of leading foreign and national researchers of the adolescent period of ontogenesis, on the basis of which numerous factors are substantiated, which allow to assert that the acquisition by juveniles of psychological self-regulation skills of their own mental states is both possible and necessary for their formation, adaptability, socialization Moreover, adolescence can be considered as sensitive for this process. The article raises the issue of the need for psychological self-regulation during the specific course and manifestation of the juveniles’ crisis of talented schoolchildren.

Conclusions. A proposed system of motivational measures for the juveniles to acquire psychological self-regulation skills. The authors provide a list of symptomatic areas of techniques, a description of some methods that can be basic in the process of psychological self-regulation is provided.

Key words: adolescence period; psychological features of adolescence; psychological neoplasms of adolescence; psychological self-regulation; motivation of psychological self-regulation of juveniles; basic techniques of psychological self-regulation.

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