Psychology in medical rehabilitation

Abstract

The article describes the problem of organizing rehabilitation care with the involvement of psychologists. In modern scientific communities, there are many branches of psychology, among them: clinical psychology, neuropsychology, medical. And there is also a lot of controversy – whether other specialists employed in the field of rehabilitation, in particular physical therapists, occupational therapists, need knowledge of psychology. In Ukraine, issues of a modern systemic approach to solving rehabilitation problems are increasingly being studied. Them it is about a multidisciplinary approach and patient-centered recovery or adaptation (therapy). The purpose of the article is to outline the main psychological aspects of patients in the rehabilitation process, to identify the rehabilitation process, to identify the presence and necessity of a psychological direction of therapy in an interdisciplinary consensus. We considered the scientific views of the specified approach and conditions of rehabilitation, through systematization and modeling, identified possible psychological aspects and as problems that arise in patients and as a psychological direction of action, in relation to patients and communications in the model of joint teamwork of doctors and related specialists. A conclusion is made regarding the quality of patient-centered treatment in rehabilitation and the psychological direction in interdisciplinary consensus. An example of quantitative assessment of the condition in psychooncology is provided. We touched on examples of possible techniques of psychocorrection, as a whole, in the sphere of «person-person».