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Prevention activity has continuously remained a problem of vital concern to all professionals in the Community Mental Health Center field. It is the thesis of this paper that prevention activity will no longer be a problem since it will be altogether eliminated in the present NIMH design; and, furthermore, that if prevention is indeed a valid activity in community mental health, alternate strategies must be sought. The discussion cites previous studies as well as current NIMH priorities to support the argument that prevention activity must be organizationally separated from service delivery. A strategy of “structural segmentation” is offered to include the use of voluntary auspices to protect the program objective of primary prevention.
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Perlmutter, F. Prevention and treatment: A strategy for survival. Community Ment Health J 10, 276–281 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01410773
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