Mental health
The problem of mental health in the today's constantly changing world, difficult and sometimes extreme social and ecological problems of this hectic life are put in the forefront in the beginning of the new 21st century. The psychological science is acquiring more and more importance today due to the increase in the number of mental disorders happening as a result of incompatibility humans with such extreme conditions they are forced to live in.
The problems people are experiencing today may be of various types and subtypes. Some people have difficulties in communication, others – in self-understanding and self-development, others experience destructive qualities (aggression, envy and so on), as well as forms of behavior (suicidal, asocial, having various psychological dependencies). But what is interesting, all these qualities may be characteristic for a normal personality, and their overcoming becomes the field of research of psychologists and not only psychiatrists. The problem is that the term "health" is usually unambiguously connected with medicine, and its malfunction always leads to the necessity of medical attention. And the psychic health of a personality is usually connected with such science as psychiatry and not psychology.
Modern psychology has a whole arsenal of techniques of psychological consulting, psychological therapy, psychological correction and psychological diagnostics. And the scope of issues described above refers rather to psychology than to the traditional medical approach.