HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY AS A FIELD OF PSYCHOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE

Abstract

The article presents a theoretical analysis of the current stage of development of health psychology as a field of psychological knowledge. The relevance of this theoretical analysis is due to the study of modern mechanisms of ensuring and preserving psychological health as one of the leading directions of health psychology. Considerable attention to this problem in modern psychological science is connected with the peculiarities of the life activity of the individual. Factors such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic, a full-scale invasion, and war affect not only the economic and political components of a person's life, but also their level of psychological health. Taking into account the above, we have analyzed the current trends in the study of health psychology, in particular, psychological health and its features. Since, it is important to take into account the current state of development of health psychology and, specifically, its features, which are important in the process of its formation in the future, as well as the mechanisms of its preservation and improvement. The main directions of studying psychological health, its components and mechanisms of provision, which are presented in modern scientific and psychological literature, are described. Based on the feasible theoretical analysis, the modern vision of the development of the psychological health of the individual is singled out, which is the main goal of health psychology as a modern science. It was found that the field of health psychology is rapidly developing to support the health of the individual in general, while taking into account the so-called «requests» of the society that lives in the time of military operations, which affect the level of psychological health with varying strength and intensity me and well-being. At the same time, the priority directions are the formation of a lifestyle, preventive and educational support of various categories of the population to improve psycho-educational awareness of the importance of maintaining psychological health. Based on the theoretical analysis of the problem of studying health psychology as a field of psychological knowledge at the current stage of development, it is summarized that the fundamental component of health psychology is the mechanisms of ensuring psychological health, which allow the full functioning of the individual in the process of life under any conditions.