Exam 8: Prevention in Human Services

Clifford Beers and his associates were instrumental in initiating:

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

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

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

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

Passive primary prevention strategies include:

Active primary prevention strategies include:

Society pays a huge financial cost for disorders that are not prevented.

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

How can political issues be an obstacle to the development of primary prevention programs?

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.

According to your text, why is prevention so important in human services? Provide at least two examples.

How are passive and active strategies different from one another? Be as specific as possible and cite an example for each.

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

Which is not an example of a primary prevention program?

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

Define and provide one example each of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention.

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

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

Critical aspects of primary prevention are that: