When government, be it liberal or conservative, reduces funding for social programs, the middle classes generally suffer the most.
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Society pays a huge financial cost for disorders that are not prevented.
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Community psychology is one of the few but growing number of human services professions that recognizes the critical importance of primary prevention.
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There are three major categories of obstacles to the funding and development of primary prevention programs in the human services field. Which one of the following contains these three categories?
a. professional, political, economic
b. social, philosophical, psychological
c. theoretical, practical, psychoanalytical
d. educational, practical, medical
Most human services workers are given significant training in the prevention of mental and physical illness.
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More money is spent throughout the U.S. on primary prevention programs than on treatment programs.
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Passive primary prevention strategies include:
a. attending group therapy sessions.
b. going to school to learn how to handle mental illness.
c. broad media informational type programs.
d. drug therapy.
e. none of the above
Which is not an example of a primary prevention program?
a. Girls Inc. Program
b. Alcoholics Anonymous
c. vaccination against smallpox
d. stress management training for healthy persons
Active primary prevention strategies include:
a. T.V. programs demonstrating how problems develop.
b. newspaper articles describing problems.
c. developing coping skills with target populations.
d. going to a therapist.
e. all of the above
The acknowledged inability of treatment and rehabilitation programs alone to stem the tide of people in need of human services makes increased primary prevention efforts almost mandatory.
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