EHPS National Delegate
Support the EHPS to deliver its aim of helping individuals, families, and societies to better cope with life challenges related to illness and health, by promoting rigorous science, health promotion interventions, and close collaborations.
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Slovakia
Zuzana Dankulincova
Health Psychology is not recognized as a specialization in Slovakia. Health psychologists in Slovakia have possibility to be organized by The Health Psychology section within Slovak Psychological Association of the Slovak Academy of Science, though there is no clear organizational structure within this section as of yet.
Health Psychology is not recognized as a specialization in Slovakia. Health psychologists in Slovakia have possibility to be organized by The Health Psychology section within Slovak Psychological Association of the Slovak Academy of Science, though there is no clear organizational structure within this section as of yet.
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Since 2021/2022 there is a new PhD study programme in Health Psychology at the Department of Applied Psychology, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences at Comenius University in Bratislava (https://fses.uniba.sk/pracoviska/ustavy/ustav-aplikovanej-psychologie/studium/). On the Master degree level, Health Psychology is not recognized as a specialization in Slovakia and is only one of the subjects provided in the courses of several study programmes mostly to the students of general psychology programmes as a part of their curriculum. A systematic review of education in the field of Health Psychology is lacking. However, relevant content might be found.
The Slovak Research and Development Agency www.apvv.sk and Scientifc Grant Agency of the
Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and
the Slovak Academy of Sciences https://www.minedu.sk/vedecka-grantova-agentura-msvvas-sr-a-sav-vega/
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