Health Psychology

Do you think a person can be happier controlling his emotions and thoughts and approaching life creatively? Does self-confidence and trust in the received treatment help a person’s recovery? Does an optimistic view of the world contribute to the prolongation of an active lifestyle to a very old age? If you answered «yes» to all these questions, it means that you understand the fundamental tasks of health psychology.

Health psychology is a fairly new and actively developing branch of psychology.  It is defined as the science of the psychological causes of health, the methods and means of its preservation, strengthening and development.  Health psychology includes the practice of maintaining human health from conception to death. It studies a healthy personality, given the diversity of individual and social norms of "health" and "illness" and can be briefly expressed in three actions: self-knowledge, self-education and self-fulfillment.