Prevention Approaches

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To prepare for this assignment:

  • Review the article, “An Overview of Primary Prevention.” Reflect on what elements are essential for primary prevention programs.
  • Review Chapter 1 of the online report, “Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General,” as well as the section “Overview of Prevention.” Reflect on how prevention approaches may be applied to social problems, issues, or concerns.
  • Consider a social problem, issue, or concern in your community and how you might use a primary, secondary, or tertiary prevention approach to address it.

The assignment: (1–2 pages)

  • Briefly describe a social issue, problem, or concern in your community that may be addressed through mental health prevention.
  • Describe a prevention approach that you might use to address the problem.
  • Explain how this approach may be applied, and justify your selection.

Article: Albee, G. W., & Ryan-Finn, K. D. (1993). An overview of primary prevention. Journal of Counseling & Development, 72(2), 115–123. Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.