Showing posts with label Psychological Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Psychological Science. Show all posts

21 July 2011

Psychological Science in Nursing, Health Scope

A. Definition
Psychology comes from the Greek word “psyche” which means soul and “logos” which means knowledge. So etymologically means the study of the soul. Who’s soul is the spiritual vitality that is abstract, which is the activator and regulator for all personal actions (personal behavior) of higher animals and humans. The act is to act as a result of personal learning process made possible by the state of physical, spiritual, social, and environmental. The learning process is a process to improve the personality (personality) with the road trying to get a new understanding, new values, and new skills, so that he can do more successful in dealing with the contradictions in life. So, the soul-understanding implies, cultural values, and skills. So psychology is the science which studies all behavior and actions of individuals, in which the individual can not be separated from its environment.