[Situational reactions manifesting themselves in behavior disorders as a form of psychogenic (reactive) disorders in children and adolescents].

The paper is related to the history, elimination, clinical expression, systematics and the clinico-nozological place of the group of situational reactions expressed in disordered behaviour of children and adolescents. These reactions are considered as associated pairs, including interconnected psychological and pathological forms. Some common criteria delineating the psychological and pathological situational reactions are presented. The paper also contains a description of the main traits of psychological and pathological reactions of protest, rejection, imitation, compensation-hypercompensation. All these reactions are considered as a special group of psychogenic (reactive) diseases.