Primary Prevention Mental Health Programs for Children and Adolescents: A Meta-Analytic Review Paola Arteaga Iván Barragán Helena Blanco Beddy Elizondo Norma Garza Laura Gómez
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1. Primary Prevention Mental Health Programs for Children and
Adolescents: A Meta-Analytic Review
Paola Arteaga
Ivn Barragn
Helena Blanco
Beddy Elizondo
Norma Garza
Laura Gmez
2. Primary Prevention Mental Health Programs for Children and
Adolescents: A Meta-Analytic Review
Primary prevention is not a new idea.
Although interest in primary prevention has been present in this
country, translating this interest into effective action is more
difficult.
It is not know exactly how or when currently healthy children
eventually develop specific psychological problems, making it
difficult to plan interventions to prevent future specific
dysfunctions.
3. Primary Prevention Mental Health Programs for Children and
Adolescents: A Meta-Analytic Review
Many researchers have widened their goals beyond the prevention of
specific disorders to include the general modification of emotional
and behavioral problems.
It is important to document that the intervention has an immediate
positive impact.
4. Primary Prevention Mental Health Programs for Children and
Adolescents: A Meta-Analytic Review
Preventive interventions may also seek to enhance positive
behaviors or features of the environment that lessen the likelihood
of negative outcomes or increase the possibility of positive
outcomes.
An enhancement model assumes that as individual become more capable
and competent, their psychological well-being improves and thus
they are better able to withstand or deal with the factors or
influences that lead the maladjustment.
5. Primary Prevention Mental Health Programs for Children and
Adolescents: A Meta-Analytic Review
Important issue is the relationship between health promotion and
levels of maladjustment.
Primary prevention in mental health may be defined as intervention
intentionally designed to reduce the future incidence of adjustment
problems in currently normal population as well as efforts direct
at the promotion of mental health functioning.
6. Conceptualizations of Primary Prevention Programs
At a broad conceptual level, two major dimensions characterize
primary prevention:
The level of the intervention.
7. And the way population are selected for intervention.