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Secondary prevention comprises treatment that reduces duration of this disorder
Tertiary prevention covers rehabilitation activity that reduces disability arising from established disorder
what is the universal approach?
Design to include all individuals in a particular geographical area
Selective prevention?
also known as a high-risk approach, is based on the assumption that there are known risk factors for certain mental health problems, and prevention has the greatest effect in targeting individuals most exposed to these risk factors. Selective prevention targets protect depends on the basis of characteristics external to the participant (ex. if the child's parents divorced or not)
what are the five components of positive mental health?
1. the ability to enjoy life
2. the ability to deal with life challenges
3. emotional well-being
4. spiritual well-being
5. social connections and respect for culture, Equity, social justice, and personal dignity
In the ecological approach to mental health promotion what are the three different levels of strategies?
1. societal level strategies-involve social policies that indirectly affect positive mental health through distal sociopolitical conditions such as economic inequality, housing, education, racism. This policy is aimed at more local settings such as schools neighborhoods churches and workplaces
2. Community level strategies-suggests that empowering community residence is an important community level strategy for promoting mental health. Build a strong sense of community and social support
3. individual level strategies-the development of age appropriate skills and competencies. Also hopes of the ability to cope effectively with stressful life events and conditions
What are three three steps of the public health approach?
1. identifying A disease and developing a reliable diagnostic methods
2. developing a theory of the diseases course of development based on laboratory research
3. developing and evaluating a disease prevention program
Public health researchers tend to focus on three components:
1. characteristics of the host
2. characteristics of the environment
3. The agent
what is the difference between risk factors and protective factors?
Risk factors are the conditions or events to increase the likelihood of negative mental health outcomes, whereas protective factors are assets or resources that helps offset or buffer risk factors
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