The Conceptual Understanding of the Category „Psychological Health”
The Conceptual Understanding of the Category „Psychological Health”
Author(s): Elena ShevchenkoSubject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Psychology, Higher Education , History of Psychology, Individual Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Comparative Psychology, Personality Psychology, Psychology of Self, Clinical psychology, Organizational Psychology, Behaviorism, Psychoanalysis
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: mental health; psychological health; psychological well-being
Summary/Abstract: This paper is dedicated to the study of the genesis of the “mental health” and “psychological health” concepts, finding identifying features and differences of these concepts. In the framework of the “health psychology” scientific field, the psychological determinants of health, methods and ways of its preservation, improvement and development were considered. In the process of theoretical research of the psychological wellbeing concepts, basic principles in the analysis of socio-psychological health were defined. The paper affirms that the psychological health is a dynamic set of a person’s mental properties, which ensure harmony between the needs of the individual and the society, which is one of the basic conditions for successful self-realisation. It also states that it is the coherence of a person’s motives, objectives, and values with the requirements of his/her environmental and his/her own internal abilities that is the main condition and manifestation of psychological health.
Journal: Диоген
- Issue Year: 23/2015
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 77-85
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English
