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Prevention in Mental Health and Social Intervention

Conceptual and Methodological Issues in the Evolution of the Science and Practice of Prevention

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Prevention has become a central goal among those concerned with a wide array of human conditions (Cowen, this volume; Feiner, Jason, Moritsugu, & Farber, 1983). Illustratively, the Secretary of Health and Human Services has labeled prevention as the nation’s number one health and social priority for the 1990s (Department of Health and Human Services, 1990). The reasons for prevention’s emergence as a central priority on the national health agenda are quite clear. Simply put, after-the-fact, reconstructive approaches have proven to be inadequate to the task of reducing the crushing levels of social and health problems confronting the nation

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