PRIMARY PREVENTION PRACTICES

by Martin Bloom

• ISBN13: 9780803971523
• ISBN10: 0803971524
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-03-26
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc

Summary

What are the most effective ways to prevent predictable behavioral problems, protect current states of health, and promote desired behaviors? Intended for use by students in the helping professions and by practitioners and researchers in the field, Primary Prevention Practices offers step-by-step procedures on how to conduct over 50 techniques of prevention practice. Through the use of an organizational framework, the configural equation, author Martin Bloom identifies the classes of factors that are to be considered in any thorough analysis of a given situation and provides a check list for accessing the full range of forces acting on events so the reader can better select which preventive action to apply. In addition, the book covers a wide range of prevention practices, including problem-solving methods, anticipatory instructions, social skills training, life-long exercises, perceived self-efficacy, assertiveness training, cognitive reframing, and peer tutoring. By using a technique that is friendly to practitioners and students, Primary Prevention Practices is a perfect resource for those in the fields of psychology, clinical psychology, social work, and public health.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Frame of Reference for Primary Prevention Practice	1	(24)
Methods of Primary Prevention: Dimension I. Increasing Individual Strengths	25	(78)
Methods of Primary Prevention: Dimension II. Decreasing Individual Limitations	103	(78)
Methods of Primary Prevention: Dimension III. Increasing Social Supports	181	(58)
Methods of Primary Prevention: Dimension IV. Decreasing Social Stresses	239	(40)
Methods of Primary Prevention: Increasing Resources and Decreasing Pressures From (and on) the Physical Environment	279	(48)
Increasing Resources From the Physical Environment	283	(27)
Decreasing the Pressures From (and on) the Physical Environment	310	(17)
Systematic Applications of Primary Prevention Methods	327	(12)
Appendix A. Primary Prevention Sources	339	(6)
Appendix B. Theories and Models in Primary Prevention	345	(16)
References	361	(51)
Author Index	412	(18)
Subject Index	430	(12)
About the Author	442