Prevention Program Development and Evaluation : An Incidence Reduction, Culturally Relevant Approach

by Robert K. Conyne

• ISBN13: 9781412966801
• ISBN10: 1412966809
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-12
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Summary

The use of seatbelts, the requirements for smoke detectors, and other kinds of public health interventions have been highly successful in reducing disability, injuries, and premature mortality. Prevention in mental health- identifying and treating mental illnesses before they become full blown syndromes or identifying people at risk for a condition-is just as critical to public mental health. This research-based resource gives practitioners a nuts-and-bolts guide to designing and evaluating prevention programs in mental health that are culturally relevant and aimed at reducing the number of new problems that occur. Key Features Employs a 10-step prevention program development and evaluation model that emphasizes the concepts of community, collaboration, and cultural relevance Offers a brief, practical, how-to approach that is based on rigorous research Identifies specific prevention program development and evaluation steps Highlights examples of 'œeveryday prevention' practices as well as concrete prevention programs that have proven, effective implementation Promotes hands-on learning with practical exercises, instructive figures, and a comprehensive reference listIntended Audience Written in a straightforward and accessible style, Prevention Program Development and Evaluation can be used as a core text in undergraduate courses devoted to prevention or in graduate programs aimed at practice issues. Current practitioners or policymakers interested in designing prevention programs will find this book to be an affable guide.

Table of Contents

Preface

List of Tables and Figures

Prevention Foundation

Prevention in Everyday Life

Basic Tenets of Prevention

Criteria for Determining a Prevention Program

Reducing Incidence in Prevention

Program Development and Evaluaton

Program Development and Evaluation : Basic Understandings

Community-Based, Collaborative, Culturally Relevant PD&E

Ten-Step Prevention Program Development and Evaluation Approach

Laying the Groundwork for Community, Collaboration, and Cultural Relevance Processes: Steps 1-8

Designing the Prevention Program and Evaluation Plan: Steps 9-10

Back to the Future: Applying Incidence Reduction to Problem Identification in Prevention Program Development and Evaluation

Analyzing and Learning From Prevention Programs

Ten-Step PPD&E Model

Laying the Groundwork (Steps 1-8) for Community, Collaboration, and Cultural Relevance

Implement and Evaluate (Steps 9-10)

PPD&E Step 9: Design the Prevention Program Plan

PPD&E Step 10: Design the Prevention Program Evaluation Plan

Basic Incidence Reduction Formulae

PPD&E Step 9b: Identify the Problem

Useful Web Sites

References

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