Dziecko prenatalne jako przedmiot zainteresowań psychologicznych organizacji i stowarzyszeń naukowych
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2001
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Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL
Abstract
The article proposes using the term "prenatal child” for a child in the intrauterine (womb) stage of life. Cultural-social context of development of interest in the child before it is born as well as trends in psychology itself that have started development of prenatal psychology are presented. It is a dynamically developing branch of psychology, which is expressed, among others, in the existence of scientific societies, conferences, courses and publications (at various levels scientific of advancement) the proceedings of four societies are presented in detail: those of International Society of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine (ISPPPM), The Association for Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH), Organisation Mondiale des Associations pour l’Education Prénatale. (OMAEP) and its local Italian section - Associazione Nazionale per I'Educazione Prénatale (ANEP-ltalia). The discussed issues are covered in two specialist magazines: ‘'International Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine” and “Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health” Scientific and training centres arc functioning; some of them that are well-known in Europe arc presented in greater detail. Also the situation has been presented of prenatal psychology development in Poland, Professor Fijalkowski’s pioneer work, publications by D. Kornas-Biela, the work of the Section of Prenatal Psychology of the Polish Psychological Society and the organisations that popularise knowledge from this sphere, like Polish Federation of Movements for Life that publishes the Voice for Life (Głos dla Życia) magazine and numerous educational materials; Defenders of Human Life Association publishing the magazine "Service to Life” (Służba Życiu); Human Life International-Europe that runs training, congresses, publishing work and with whose co-operation the Foundation Club of Friends of Human Life works (it publishes “The Facts of Eile”) as well as the organisation Seminarians for Life (publishing the Polish edition of the "Seminarians for Life International Newsletter”); Association for Natural Childbirth and Feeding that runs information and training meetings, conferences, courses of child delivering personal and phone guidance and the Give Birth in the Human Way Foundation. In the conclusion of the article also a methodological reflection on prenatal psychology is contained, it discusses its actual and model status, interdisciplinary character, the variety of paradigms functioning in its area, the dominance of clinical problems and the “schizophrenic" attitudes of the authors whose moral conviction about the mother's right to decide about the late of the unborn child is stronger than the reliable information about its status as a human being and its development. It turns out that knowledge from the sphere of prenatal psychology may, but does not have to, shape attitudes protecting life before it is born.
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dziecko prenatalne, psychologia prenatalna, status ontyczny dziecka przed urodzeniem, płód, obrona życia, Włodzimierz Fijałkowski, prenatal child, prenatal psychology, ontical status of the child before birth, foetus, defense of life
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Oblicza dzieciństwa, red. D. Kornas-Biela, Lublin 2001, s. 225-252
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83-7306-045-6