Exam 8: Prevention in Human Services

Which is not an example of a primary prevention program?

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.

Critical aspects of primary prevention are that:

Early detection and treatment of dysfunction is defined as secondary prevention.

Most human services workers are given significant training in the prevention of mental and physical illness.

The lack of knowledge about the causes of a specific illness was always an obstacle to preventing the illness.

To prevent means to keep something from happening.

It was not until the 1960s that the federal government seriously considered efforts to prevent mental illness.

Community psychology is one of the few but growing number of human services professions that recognizes the critical importance of primary prevention.

Active primary prevention strategies include:

In the field of medicine, major targets of prevention are:

Many diseases or disorders have been eliminated through treatment alone.

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?

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.

More money is spent throughout the U.S.on primary prevention programs than on treatment programs.

If parents noticed that their teenage child was beginning to use alcohol and obtained help for their child, this would be an example of:

It was not until the latter part of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century that significant efforts were made to prevent mental illness.

In preliterate societies, people tried to prevent hunger, illness, injury, and death by:

The major focus of the settlement house movement was to help people deal with:

Primary prevention is designed to keep a disorder, disability, or dysfunction from occurring in the first place.