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Motorički poremećaji, kronične bolesti, art terapije i sofrologija
Motor disorders, chronic diseases, art therapies and sophrology

Author(s): Miroslav Prstačić, Branko Nikolić, Renata Hojanić
Subject(s): Education, Psychology, Philosophy of Science
Published by: Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijski fakultet
Keywords: philosophy of science; art; art therapy; interdisciplinarity; identity of discipline; rehabilitation; motoric disturbances and chronic diseases; sophrology;

Summary/Abstract: Some issues of the philosophy of science, the relation of science and art, development of traditional and new scientific fields, professional trends and new forms of interdisciplinary communication have been studied. An issue when the quality of consciousness emerges in ontogenesis - and how a differentiated and complex structure of SELF in an individual's personality with regard. to development of his professional identity and the identity of the discipline is formed - has also been outlined. The development of interdisciplinarity has been interpreted on the basis of registered trends of changes in the observed period. The data for the defined variables were processed by the INDIFF method, and the trends of modifications were interpreted on the basis of standardised z-values. On the basis of a theoretical biopsychosocial model and contemporary ecological and holistic approaches, the dynamics of changes in the paradigm of the discipline has been interpreted on the principles of supportiveness and complementariness. With regard to the constant need of the discipline for the formation in accordance with aesthetic and deontological criteria, problem fields of motor disorders and chronic diseases are presented in relation to the development of art therapies and sophrology, as a new level in the development of this discipline. Special reference has been made to the importance of development of some other fields within the discipline, such as,for instance, educational therapy and early psychomotor rehabilitation, somatotherapies, psychosocial oncology, rehabilitation technology, which could not be further elaborated in this paper. Changes in the paradigm of the discipline have been studied on the basis of the results obtained in the scientific and clinical studies carried out within several scientific projects, in various fields of education, prevention, diagnostics, treatment and rehabilitation.

  • Issue Year: 39/2004
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 91-103
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Croatian