This article justifies the selection of the systems method as a methodological basis for the study of prognostic regulation of socio-psychological adaptation at deviant behavior. The systemacity of the study of the phenomenon of socio-psychological adaptation might be fully explicated through the development of a holistic socio-psychological concept of socio-psychological adaptation as a system of restructuring of a person’s behavior in accordance with the changes in external requirements. This system is based on paradigmatic provisions of the systems method. The implementation of methodological provisions of this approach allows us to deeply and constructively reveal the phenomenon of socio-psychological adaptation as a system. Using this approach as a methodological basis, we can study the phenomenon of socio-psychological adaptation at its main characteristics.

prognostic regulation, socio-psychological adaptation, systems method