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The connection of methodological ideas in positive psychology (the USA) and cultural-historical approach (Russia) in studying the learnt helplessness of children having weak health

International Conference on Positive Psychology and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

June 13-14, 2016 Philadelphia, USA

Olesya Volkova

Krasnoyarsk State Medical University, Russia

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Psychol Psychother

Abstract :

Martin Seligman, the founder of Positive Psychology and the learned helplessness theory, considers that the optimistic or pessimistic attitude to reality is directly interconnected with perception of parental behavior models. Dr. M. Seligman specifies that this style is improving in childrenâ�?�?s consciousness by means of criticism from representatives of an adult environment. Cases of systematic negative experience steadily form the pessimism characterized by generalization. According to the main concepts of cultural-historical approach developed by Russian scientist L.S. Vygotskij the development of a person is based on interiorization, which is transformation process of inter psychological relations into intra psychological. In ontogenesis at first the adult affects the child with the word, inducing him to do something. Then the child adopts a way of communication and learns to influence the adult with the word. After that the child starts influencing the word himself. In the families, having child with weak somatic health, the psychological system is broken: deficiency of relationship revealed in problems of relations with mother, replacement of the father from psychological life of a family, posing child as weak and unable, which results violation of normal child identity formation. Connecting the ideas of Positive Psychology and Cultural-historical approach it is possible to claim that children having weak health â�?�?learnâ�? helplessness gradually, under not the influence of somatic state of a child, but under the determination of the factor of social response to features of child somatic health.

Biography :

Email: olesyavl.volkova@mail.ru