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The purpose of the study is to establish prevalence of separate components of subjective psychological problems among adolescents aged 15-18 years, to identify dynamics of the prevalence of factors of psychological problems over the past decade and to characterize perception by parents of children aged 10-14 years the crisis psychological situations of their child in the Republic of Belarus. The data of surveys of representative Republican samples of adolescents of age of 15-18 years carried out in 2022-2023 (n=1254) and in 2010-2011 (n=949) were analyzed. The following factors were considered: self-assessment of health, emotional psychological characteristics of personality of adolescents as parameters of subjective psychological well-being/problematic condition. The results of survey of the Republican representative sample of parents of adolescents aged 10-14 years (n=1230) that was carried out in 2022-2023 were used to analyze opinions of parents about crisis psychological situations in life of their child. The study confirms the widespread prevalence in adolescent environment of indicators of condition of subjective psychological problems, the intensity of which increases in the interim of 15-18 years as they are becoming adult. The risk groups of condition of subjective psychological problems subjective disadvantage are individuals residing in rural areas and male youths. As regarding male youths, the tendency was revealed concerning deterioration of self-assessment of health and an increase of prevalence of factors of condition of subjective psychological problems during 2010-2023. According opinions of of adolescents themselves and their parents, extremely low demand for help from school psychologists, pedagogues and other workers of social psychological services of educational institutions in cases of crisis psychological situation of adolescent remained during 2010-2023.