Objectives: After completing the course, students should be able to: - Define both psychological disciplines and draw their relationship to other areas of psychology, - Understand the definitions of normality and explain the concept of psychological determinism, - Characterize the bio-psycho-social approach to the human psyche, - Systematize the factors affecting health and illness, - Clarify the concepts of health and illness, - Deduce the nature of illness experience, to characterize individual reactions to stressful situations and draw the protective factors in the context of dealing with stress, to characterize the relationship patient - illness, patient and medic, apply knowledge of psychology in medical fields. Topics: Approaches to the definition of normality, personal integrity, resilience factors, salutogenesis, mental health - definition, prevention and recovery, adaptability and maladaptive responses, developmental perspective in relation to health and disease. Mental deprivation, neurotic development in children, specific school disorders. Selected aspects of the psychology of health and illness, the psychology of human resilience, coping strategies, family psychology, emotional deprivation. Manifestations of psychical deprivation in relation to age. Psychology of human endurance. Normality of mental life. Psychological determinism and its manifestations. Experiencing the meaning of life in relation to mental health. Patient relationship and medical staff, educational nurse and her role.
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