Psychology of Health and Illness
INTRODUCTION This paper is dedicated to the study of most popular approaches in the social psychology and their application to a real-life situation. Approaches that will be considered are: biological, cognitive, behaviourist, humanistic and psychodynamic. The latter two will be used to analyse the situation. The term of psychology will be also described along with its relevance in the nursing practice. In particular, the ways in which psychological principles can be realised in practice will be shown. Psychology is the science dedicated to the laws of the development and functioning of the psyche as a special form of life. ...
