Primary prevention of mental and emotional disorders: A conceptual framework and action possibilities.

Bower, Eli M.

doi:10.1111/j.1939-0025.1963.tb01046.x

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“…Primary prevention of psychopathology is a relatively new idea (cf. Bower, 1965Bower, , 1969Caplan, 1961Caplan, , 1964Kessler & Albee, 1975;Zax & Cowen, 1969) which currently arouses as much fervent support (Albee, 1982;Bloom, 1979Bloom, , 1981Bower, 1972;Cowen, 1980;Kelly, 1977) as opposition (Cain, 1967;Cumming, 1972;Henderson, 1975;Lamb, 1981;Lamb & Zusman, 1979;Panzetta, 1971). The major problem is that the concepts of primary prevention which were initially presented with such great promise have led to so few adequately evaluated prevention projects that critics and skeptics abound.…”

Section: Primary Prevention: Evidence For Its Effectiveness With Chilmentioning

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Children of disturbed parents: The interface between research and intervention

Goodman

1984

American J of Comm Psychol

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This paper provides a review of high-risk studies and preventive interventions with children who have an increased likelihood of developing psychopathology because they are the offspring of emotionally disturbed parents. The research implications for preventive interventions are summarized in terms of selection of participants, goals for prevention, intervention methods, and intervention research methodology. Next, several preventive intervention programs are reviewed and evaluated for their responsiveness to the research literature. The review revealed that, despite theoretical and methodological diversity in the research literature, the findings provide many suggestions for the design of preventive interventions. On the other hand, intervention programs were most often found to have not used research findings in program design. This review concludes with suggestions for needed research and guidelines for future preventive interventions.

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Children of disturbed parents: The interface between research and intervention

Goodman

1984

American J of Comm Psychol

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“…The man from Mars or Venus would view with some astonishment the way we march our youth off to the campuses each September, run them through assembly lines of registration with much confusion, and proceed to drill them in intellectual exercises which often seem to them alienated from their present interests and future pursuits. Bower (1963), who was a consultant on school mental health with the National Institute of Mental Health, wrote of the apparent need of our society through its schools to classify some individuals as failures in order to preserve the feeling of superior accomplishment for others. Thus our colleges maintain a constant pressure on the student by means of holding over his head the threat that he will be labeled a failure in the competitive race for the diploma.…”

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Preventive psychiatry on the college campus

Kysar

1966

Community Ment Health J

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American colleges lose half their students in the four years after matriculation. This high attrition rate with its waste of brainpower and cost in human well-being suggests that our institutions of higher education are not very conducive to optimal development of students. Especially those who begin the race for the diploma from the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum are disadvantaged from the start. Recently, attention has been focused across the nation on the failures of the educational process at lower levels. However, the negative consequences ofcollege failure or dropout for individuals and for society are no less than the consequences of dropout from the secondary schools.It is probable that in half or more of all the dropouts and flunkouts from American universities, psychosocial difficulties are an important factor in the failure. Preventive psychiatric measures on the campuses could reduce both educational losses and future psychiatric casualties. These preventive measures and the role of mental health professionals in colleges are elaborated.

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“…Psychotogical approaches focus on internal mediating structures and processes (perceptions, feelings, constructs) which individuals develop about their communities. It is suggested that community psychologists make use of and integrate these two research approaches in order to design maximally effective intervention programs.The concept of "primary prevention" (Bower, 1963;Caplan, 1964;Cowen, Gardner, & Zax, 1967) as it relates to community psychology represents a radical shift away from attention to individuals in psychological distress. It involves an orientation to the entire matrix of social, economic, political, biological, cultural, and physical as well as psychological factors which affect human development and growth.…”

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“…The concept of "primary prevention" (Bower, 1963;Caplan, 1964;Cowen, Gardner, & Zax, 1967) as it relates to community psychology represents a radical shift away from attention to individuals in psychological distress. It involves an orientation to the entire matrix of social, economic, political, biological, cultural, and physical as well as psychological factors which affect human development and growth.…”

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