Learnt Helplessness Prevention System in the Course of Caring Professions Training: Prospects of Implementation

Abstract

The methodological horizons of contemporary science are expanding as well as the range of applied issues of psychology. One of the tasks of modern psychology is to increase human resistance to potential psychological problems. Psychological prevention is especially important for future experts in caring professions, e.g. medical psychologists and doctors, who will regularly interact with people with learned helplessness complicated by somatic and psychological violations. The present study assesses the potential prospects of including the system of learned helplessness prevention in the curriculum of the Krasnoyarsk State Medical University for senior and post-degree students majoring in clinical psychology and medical assistance.

Keywords

• system of psychological prevention
• prevention prospects
• students
• educational process