Olesya Volkova obtained her
degree as Candidate of Psychology (PhD) in the
field of Clinical Psychology in 2009. Now she
is an associate professor of Clinical
Psychology Faculty at the Krasnoyarsk State
Medical University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia. She
has more than 60 papers published in reputed
Russian and international journals, book
chapters and 8 monographs.
The topic of the post-graduate research
reveals the problem of “The specific features
of will-power development among children of
pre-school age having weak somatic health”.
Now the research interest is in the field of
studying ontogenetic development of the
Learned Helplessness phenomena which is
strictly connected with the state of somatic
health, social environment and parental
influence on the child since the pre-school
age till the adulthood. One of the fundamental
methodological ideas of this researcher is to
recover differences and similarities between
Contemporary Positive Psychology and
Cultural-and-Historical Approach developed in
Russian Psychology on the spot of Learned
Helplessness and Somatic Health.
INVITED SYMPOSIUM
ABSTRACT
Comprehensive psychological
support of psychosomatic patients
The major
aim of the symposium “Comprehensive
Psychological support of psychosomatic
patients” is to share comprehensive
theoretical and practical experience of
different psychological approaches and
psychological schools representatives. New
technologies in support of psychosomatic
patients, programs of psychological
rehabilitation, investigation of inner
psychological state of patients under the
influence of different mental and somatic
diseases (psychosomatic pathologies, cancer,
ischemia, tuberculosis, malignant tumors of
the mammary glands, cardio-vascular disease,
Parkinson disease, and mental disorders) as
well as methods of prevention and early
diagnostic are in the focus of the symposium.
As a result of symposium we see new
opportunities for scientific collaboration in
the field of psychosomatic approach in
contemporary psychology.
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