Resumen de Psychodiagnostics as a direction of work of a medical psychologist

Shelshakova Natalya Nikolaevna

• The article indicates that psychodiagnostic research is inextricably linked with all fragments of the counseling process and constitutes an integral process of psychological counseling. Psychodiagnostics is an integral part of the process of the client knowing himself (this is not self-reflection in the full sense of the word, since this process is regulated, most often a goal is set, documented). The articleidentifies the main problems of psychodiagnostics in the work of a medical psychologist: low quality of psychodiagnostic techniques and their insufficient number; the lack of professional psychodiagnostics in Russia involved in the development, adaptation and standardization of tests; difficulties in diagnosing.