REPRESENTATIONS OF SPECIALISTS OF HELPING PROFESSIONS ABOUT THEIR HEALTH AND HEALTHY LIFESTYLE OF CLIENTS
The article considers a model for analyzing the ideas about their health of specialists of helping professions (doctors, psychologists, teachers) and the healthy lifestyle of those who turn to them for professional help (patients, clients, students). The purpose of the work was to test the assumption that the views of specialists in helping professions about their own health and the health of those who turn to them for help differ depending on the type of dominant health idea. It is revealed that the dominant types of health ideas among specialists of helping professions are scarce and self-sufficient. Differences were found in the actions to maintain their health among helping specialists with scarce and self-sufficient variants of the dominant health idea. Specialists of helping professions, depending on the dominant health idea, described their patients/ clients/ students differently: with a deficit type - with phrases with negative emotional connotation, with a self-sufficient type - with neutral and positive. There is also a contradiction between the willingness of specialists in helping professions to actively maintain their healthy lifestyle and the expectations of the quality and effectiveness of similar actions to maintain and develop health from patients/ clients/ students.