The Counsellor and Health Psychology.
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1998
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Olusakin, A.M
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New Century Journal of Education
Abstract
The rationale for involving counsellors in matters of physical health has been
established. tn this paper, effort was made to present evidence that mental and
physical disorders are created out of a complex interaction of social forces' physical
as well as the personality of the person subjected to these influences
and the inability of the people to adapt adequately to pressures. Attaining and
maintaining health should be seen to adapt adequately to pressures' Attaining and
maintainin[ health should be seen as chailenge. The challenge is not met without
effort and responsibility. Consequently, many people can benefit from counselling in
their search for health. Health is more than the absence of disease. It is a system of
maintaining life, fueled by the body, the mind and the spirit. Good health is as much
a state of mind. How the body functions is intimately
connected to how a person thinks and feels, that is, to cognitive and emotional
processes. The complex relationships among thinking, feeling, and behaving are the
prime determinants of health.
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Olusakin, A.M (1998). The Counsellor and Health Psychology. New Century Journal of Education 1 (1) 133 - 140