061013150 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES ( 2 Crd.Hrs )

"Social psychology is more useful today than ever before. Such a vital area of psychology also helps to understand the role psychological, social, cultural factors in different health and disease issues that modern man do face. To go beyond health and disease processes social psychology helps us a lot in diagnoses, care and cure processes. Not surprisingly, today we find that physicians, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, health givers, health advisors and planners do study principles and fundamentals of social psychology as well as do implement the same in the area where they are specialized and working with. It is extremely difficult to work with a patient and you don’t know his or her psychosocial-sociocultural and bio-behavioral background. Lacking that knowledge means you are unqualified to interpret, predict and control the therapeutic as well as the rehabilitation setting and situation. So, to help all those who are concerned with one’s health, disease and treatment, we have designed this course of psychology, and our hope that it will fulfill the main objectives behind it. "