Health ministry of republic of moldova the university of medicine and pharmacy nicolae testemiţanu

3. Main concepts of psychoprophylaxis.
Psychotherapy directed 
toward the prevention of emotional disorders and the maintenance of 
mental health [psycho + prophylaxis]. 
To prevent means: action so as to avoid, forestall, or circumvent a 
happening, conclusion, or phenomenon. 
Prevention in medicine is seen as action taken to decrease the 
chance of getting a disease.
For example, cancer prevention includes 
avoiding risk factors (such as smoking, obesity, lack of exercise, and 
radiation exposure) and increasing protective factors (such as getting 
regular physical activity, staying at a healthy weight, and having a 
healthy diet). Prevention also means taking advance measures against 
the occurrence of something possible or probable; prefer. 
For instance, disease/disorder prevention /control: increasing 
human or animal resistance against disease (e.g., immunization), control 

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of transmission agents, prevention and control of environmental hazards, 
or for prevention and control of social factors leading to disease; 
includes preventive measures in individual cases; postcoordinate with 
specific disease. 
Mental disorder prevention
imply the decreasing the risk of 
mental disorders, including the prevention and control of social factors 
leading to mental disease. 
1. Discuss the concept "socially important illnesses".
2. Which of the school diseases are closely connected and conditioned 
by the harmful factors of school society, and are called "specific 
professional diseases"?
3. What is the reason about stress in pupils’ age and what are the ways 
and means to its overcoming and compensating?
In principle the 
psycho-hygiene
and 
psycho-prophylaxis
are 
directed to psychic health protection by the means of: 
1) setting up of the optimum for the nerve system and brain functioning 
and complete development of the psychic qualities and characteristics of 
the individual; 
2) settling (of) many-sided, humane and interindividual relationships; 
3) building up skills to manage stress and resolve conflicts; 
4) eliminating of the conditions that form tiredness and overfatigue; 
5) raising of the resistance of the psyche against harmful environment 
factors; 
6) promotion of the role of the sport and physical culture for psyche and 
psychic health consolidation;
7) ensuring sufficient restorative and regular sleep for the organism;
8) harmonizing between labor and rest, and sleep and free time spent 
according to the hygiene, in order to achieve a steady protection against 
psychic loads and failures;
9) setting up the conditions for labour that satisfies and ensures positive 
emotions.
Among the leading reasons for the school diseases are: chronic 
mind tire and overwork, irregular nutrition, bad hygiene conditions and 
discomfort, systematic lack of rest, abuse with alcohol, smoking, drugs, 
stress factors, etc. Stress in school age is in most cases connected to:
long-lasting psycho-emotional traumatic situations, created by teachers, 
school authorities, chronic informational and regime entrusts and 
overloads, constant anxiety, fear of examination, of failure, lack of time, 

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etc. The wide-spread psychology of unhealthy behaviour, altogether 
with the unrealistic optimism, underrating of health threats, coming from 
the risk factors, the skepticism and the mistrust to health initiatives, 
primitive ideas for the illness, low health culture, etc. contributes to 
extend of diseases and risks for the student’s health.
The prophylactics of school illnesses needs extending of the 
personal responsibility of the students for their own health and for the 
health of the others; development of some private skills for dealing with 
the stress; reducing the harmful habits and situations, supporting the 
unhealthy way of life - reducing of the abuse with alcohol, drugs, 
smoking, popularization of sports, regular nutrition, organized rest, etc.
The change in the way of life of the young people by providing of 
duly information for their health and the threatening risk factors, as well 
as the creation of conditions for formation of skills, values, relations, 
inviting to healthy choices in complicated life situations and to health-
approbating models of behaviour, contributes to protecting from 
illnesses and risks and lead them to a healthy lifestyle.