Concept

People working in the fields of health education, -formation and -counselling acquire specific expertise, partly mediation competences, too, in the course of their apprenticeship as well as in advanced training courses. Health-promoting processes ought to be initiated through these experiences in the individual or in groups.
Besides the acquisition of knowledge and competences, the own (subjective) concepts of health and illness in the apprenticeship aswell in advanced training courses are mostly unconsidered. Such concepts are biographical and culture specific, they most commonly appear subconciously as early studies show. Also, they seem to have a rather repressing or hindering influence on the professional action.
For this purpose, the aim of the workshops is to uncover the subconciously running health- and illness concepts of professionals working in the healthcare sector (the same is true for the participants of the workshops) and to interpret these concepts in reference to known culture-historical „myths“.
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