Possibilities of cybernetic research model in the development of the program directed on diagnostics, correction, and prevention of "learned helplessness" in ontogenesis

The article attempts to update the problem of correlation and interrelation of physical and psychological health. The analysis of the research projects devoted to the identification of the reasons of the weakened children's health is provided. The conclusion that norm criteria of a child's psychological health are directly connected with features of the main stages of ontogenetic development of a child. Relevance of the research proves the statement that "learned helplessness" as a form of activity organization is the catalyst of a somatic illness and it weakens the body resistance to harmful influences of the environment, it promotes and intensifies somatic diseases of various etiologies. This statement allows proving the relevance of the cultural and historical concept to study the genesis of "learned helplessness" among children with poor health, and it allows testing the cybernetic research model aimed at diagnostics, correction, and prevention of "learned helplessness" in ontogenesis. Prospects and the practical importance of the research consist in grounding the cultural and historical approach to study the essence of "learned helplessness" as the methodological basis allowing to study genesis, structure, prerequisites, and the mechanisms of formation of "learned helplessness" according to current trends in psychological science because this approach is a fundamental tool in developing conceptual grounds and creating the integrated model of studying "learned helplessness" among children with poor health. In the course of the research the author generalizes that "learned helplessness" represents a specific characteristic of children with poor health which is a result of a special children's perception of their own somatic status refracted through a prism of understanding of an internal picture of an illness and an internal picture of health, undergoing the direct effect of specific parental attitude and perception of the identity of a child with poor health, which has its grounds at preschool age and remains during the entire period of formation and development of a person identity. One of the assumptions is that the cybernetic research model presented by a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods of natural scientific and phenomenological analyses would allow to carry out a descriptive, interpretive, and theoretical validity in cultural and clinical-psychological researches of intrinsic features of "learned helplessness" from the position of cultural and historical approach. The approved integrative medical and psychological educational support program to the subjects from a child's social and cultural environment, based on basic statements of cultural and historical approach towards genesis of "learned helplessness" contributes to the prevention and correction of "learned helplessness" among children with poor health in ontogenesis.

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