Veselības psiholoģijas izveides pamatojums Latvijā

Abstract

Health Psychology, based on biopsychosocial approach, addresses the issues of individual, group and society's physical, social and mental health. Today, in Europe and the U.S., it has been defined as one of the branches of psychology. Also, it has started in positioning in Latvia. This paper discusses the necessity of establishing and development of the field and education of health psychology in Latvia, clarifies the meaning and the framework of the health psychology, as well as offers a description of the scope of specialists’ activity and the tendencies of research in this field.

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Keywords

Health psychology, approaches in/divisions of health psychology (clinical, community, public, occupational), training in health psychology, 5.1 Psychology, 3.3 Health sciences, 3.1. Articles or chapters in proceedings/scientific books indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Citation

Martinsone, K, Freimane, G, Mihailova, S & Mihailovs, J I 2013, Veselības psiholoģijas izveides pamatojums Latvijā. in Sabiedrība. Integrācija. Izglītība = Society. Integration. Education : starptautiskās zinātniskās konferences materiāli = proceedings of the international scientific conference. vol. 2, Society. Integration. Education=Sabiedrība. Integrācija. Izglītība, Rēzeknes Augstskola, Rēzekne, pp. 593-602, International Scientific Conference “Society. Integration. Education: Sabiedrība. Integrācija. Izglītība”, 2013, Rezekne, Latvia, 24/05/13.
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