Maestro y Sociedad (Jun 2018)

The process of counseling in promotion and education for health from the university context

  • Juana Palma-Vaillant,
  • Irela Margarita Paz-Domínguez,
  • Carlos Albenis Rodríguez-Fernández

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 3
pp. 18 – 29

Abstract

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This article focuses on health advice from the university setting and associated training processes, with a view to ensuring the training of teachers as health promoters that contribute to the comprehensive training of future professionals, with emphasis on students of pedagogical careers, taking into account the double purpose of favoring their general formation and their preparation for the promotion and education in health in the professional practice. The methods of analysis-synthesis, induction-deduction, systematization and hermeneutic-dialectic were used. As the main result, it is important to reveal the relationship: General counsel for health promotion and disease prevention - Coordinating advisers - Lead promoters teachers - Youth promoters and educators pairs, as an expression of the advisory process at university level, aimed at proactively addressing health situations, and positively influencing the development of healthy behaviors throughout the training process.

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