Among the leading criteria for adequate diagnosis of the consequences of the impact of incurable diseases on the mental health of patients, a disease such as HIV/AIDS is no exception, should include the use of clear, specific and adequate approaches to determining its leading correlates. as a result of the use of simple and informative psychodiagnostic methods with subsequent development based on their generalization and analysis of complex scales for assessing the severity of adverse changes in various organs and systems [1, 2, 3, 6]. At the same time, it must be noted that at present there are practically no opportunities for adequate operational prediction of the degree of risk of adverse changes in the mental health of people infected with HIV, and the question of developing a unified methodological approach is raised. a content-unified determination of the degree of prevalence of various deviations from the leading correlates of mental health.