[The effectiveness of complex medical and psychological rehabilitation of women in the menopausal period].

Unlabelled: Methods enhancing of women health restoration in the menopausal period is constrained by insufficient knowledge and, therefore, poor consideration of psychological factors in rehabilitation programs. The role of psychophysiological and psychotherapeutic methods for building a personalized program of health improvement for women in the climacteric period and increasing the effectiveness of rehabilitation treatment remains underestimated.

Objective: Study of the complex medical methods' effectiveness and psychological rehabilitation of patients during menopause with the use of psychophysiological programs and certain psychotherapy techniques.

Experience of the implementation of felt therapy classes (using of non-spun wool in the art therapy process) while working with the emotional state of patients of the FSBSI "National Medical Research Center for Rehabilitation and Balneology".

The article describes some psychological peculiarities of the work with the emotional state of patients and one of the possible ways to correct it using art therapy - felt therapy, (the use of non-spun wool in an art therapy process). In the article are described the possibilities of this material and the effects of its use. The main tasks of the work are the formation of a conscious attitude to the disease, the recognition of the "secondary benefits" of having a "symptom", the actualization, awareness and replenishment of the spectrum of internal resources, the evolution of the ability to gain the access to them, as well as the integration, acceptance of the "symptom" and the suffering part of the personality, the acceptance of the diversity of one's own "I".