BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES - Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie

Preface
What and how man is there are questions the humanity is interested in
for the ages but only in the modern times the more or less rigorous answers
are acquired. The modern sciences, shifting the accents and priorities in
studying humans and moving in deep, enrich our knowledge, enabling us for a
better understanding of human nature. What is really significant in this context
is that the modern argued approach to man, as to the bio-psycho-social
integrity, changes the dominant in present therapeutic attitudes towards person
as to the exclusively biologic entity. The hallmark for replacement of
biological therapeutic paradigm with that psychosomatic one is the inclusion
in medical schools’ curriculum the matter called Behavioral Sciences.
What are Behavioral sciences? It is a very complex domain; it is
actually a generic title of a cluster of discipline such as medical sociology,
medical psychology, communication sciences etc.
The textbook contains essential general issues in Behavioral sciences
and is designed to make an introduction in this field. Being conceived to cover
the most general and important subjects of the domain, it consists of eight
themes the content of which reveal the significance of such topics as: Normal
and Abnormal Behavior, Health risks behavior, Social roles of doctors and
patients, Physician – patient relationship, Human psychological types,
Communication and its significance in therapeutic context etc. At the end of
every theme the final questions and tasks are proposed so that to facilitate the
learning and at the same time to impulse for a critical thought. References to
the theme give the opportunity to study deeply the subject of interest.
The book is intended to familiarize the students with basic
achievements of behavioral sciences and to make them able to apply acquired
knowledge in their medical activity as well as in their daily life. At the end of
studying students are expected to know the human psychological types and
human behavior types, to understand their professional role (as doctors) as
well as the social role of their patients, to have the competences in constricting
an adequate communication and relationship in therapeutic context etc.
Knowledge acquainted with as a result of this textbook’s reading will aid the
students to be more self-confident and accordingly more efficient in their
future professional activity.
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