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This article provides an analysis of domestic and foreign literature on the concept of “adolescent addictive behaviour,” summarises its scientific understanding, and outlines the mechanisms of the emergence of addictive behaviour and psychological characteristics of adolescents exhibiting addictive behaviour. The study presents a review of modern research on the problems of Internet-, food-, and alcohol addictions. The review includes Russian, Kazakh and international literature on the psychological prevention of adolescent addictive behaviour. The concept of the “psychological prevention of adolescent addictive behaviour” is disclosed, and the principles and objectives of preventive work with adolescents prone to addictive behaviour are defined. A set of diagnostic techniques is proposed to study the predilection of adolescents to addictive behaviour. The article reveals the content and effectiveness of the programme for the psychological prevention of adolescents’ predisposition to addictive behaviour by means of group psychological counselling. The authors describe the course of experimental work on the study of adolescents’ predisposition to addictive behaviour, present the testing of the developed psychological programme, and demonstrate the effectiveness of adolescents’ group counselling to prevent their addictive behaviour. The results of the study confirm the authors’ hypothesis that the use of group forms of psychological counselling is effective in psychological prevention, as it relies on the activity of adolescents. The results of the study contribute to the development of preventive pedagogy and psychology, and the improvement of the modern system of anti-alcohol and anti-drug education of adolescents. The study findings can be also used in educational institutions in advisory and remedial work with adolescents.

There are various forms of addictions that teenagers indulge in. Teenage years is a stage in life that when physical and hormonal changes influence a person's field of decision-making. During this time, teenagers are enticed to experiment on drugs and other dangerous habits. Results suggest that attention should be paid to how teenagers are thinking about their futures due to the associated links with long-term social and health behaviours. Overall, this study shows that there are considerable differences both in terms of individual indicators, and on the relationships between the meaning-life orientations and value orientations in the structure of personal life plans of teenagers with addictive behaviour and teenagers that are not prone to addiction.This result may indicate that the psychological aspects of personal life plans for teenagers influence the development of addictive behaviours. The values of communication: courage in defending one's opinion, honesty, and advertence are more important for teenagers of the control group than for teenagers with addictive behaviour. In the meaning-life orientations and values of a teenager who is not prone to addictive behaviour, the central place is occupied by a strong will as a value -a means of achieving goal, on the second place it is possible to highlight by importance of interrelations the instrumental value -responsibility.The results of the study can be further used to carry out effective preventive and psycho-corrective work with teenagers. The carried out research has shown that psycho-corrective work should be built with taking into account the formation of personal life plans of teenagers. Identified characteristics of personal life plans for teenagers who are prone to addictive behaviour can be used for psycho diagnostic purposes when carrying out complex judicial psycho-psychiatric examination or forensic psychiatric examination.

There are various forms of addictions that teenagers indulge in. Soviet and international research show that teenagers' addictions cause problems in interpersonal relationships, increase risk behaviour and is one of the reasons for suicides. Studies have also found that drug abuse problems that started in the teenage years lead to serious abuse problems in early adulthood, although abuse tends to decrease in the late 20s. One of the protective factors from addictive behaviour for teenagers is the 'meaning of life' and spiritual values, which play a major role in impulse control. This study investigated two groups of teenagers; the experimental group using participants with drug addiction and the control group using participants with no addiction. This study examined how teenagers' values predicted adult social roles, civic behaviors, and drug use. Results suggest that attention should be paid to how teenagers think about their future due to the associated links with longterm social and health behaviours. This findings of the study reveals that there are considerable differences both in terms of individual indicators, and on the relationships between the meaning-life orientations and value orientations in the structure of personal life plans of teenagers who exhibit and those who do not exhibit addictive behaviour. The research has shown that psycho-corrective work should take into account the formation of personal life plans of teenagers. Identified characteristics of personal life plans for teenagers who are prone to addictive behaviour can be used for psychodiagnostic purposes when carrying out complex judicial psycho-psychiatric examination or forensic psychiatric examination.