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Many diseases or disorders have been eliminated through treatment alone.
 
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An excellent reason to emphasize primary prevention programs is that there are not enough human services personnel to treat or rehabilitate all that are in need.
 
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A program designed to rehabilitate those afflicted with severe mental disorders would be an example of:
 
  a. primary prevention.
  b. secondary prevention.
  c. tertiary prevention.
  d. quadrary prevention.



Critical aspects of primary prevention are that:
 
  a. it must be group- or mass-oriented.
  b. it is focused on high-risk groups.
  c. it is aimed at specific target populations.
  d. it can deal with the general population.
  e. all of the above



Early detection and treatment of dysfunction is defined as secondary prevention.
 
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If parents noticed that their teenage child was beginning to use alcohol and obtained help for their child, this would be an example of:
 
  a. primary prevention.
  b. secondary prevention.
  c. tertiary prevention.
  d. quadrary prevention.



A program designed to help the newly employed learn new skills would be an example of:
 
  a. primary prevention.
  b. secondary prevention.
  c. tertiary prevention.
  d. quadrary prevention.



Primary prevention is designed to keep a disorder, disability, or dysfunction from occurring in the first place.
 
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It was not until the 1960s that the federal government seriously considered efforts to prevent mental illness.
 
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Prior to the 1960s, most prevention programs aimed at mental illness were carried out by the Public Health Service.
 
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