Prospects of research of emotional burnout in relatives of patients with alcohol or opioid dependence

The questions of methodology of studying of relatives of patients with chronic diseases are considered. Challenges of implementation of burnuot construct into the area of research of addict’s relatives are described. This challenges are connected with inertness of the installations accenting only destructive components of relative - addict interaction and lack of measures for assessment of constructive components of personal activity of addict’s relatives. Social, economic and cultural conditions of various models of understanding of psychology of addictive patient’s relatives are analyzed.