Prevention of mental disorders: Steps toward community interventions

Current social conditions present a mixture of progress in some areas, together with destruction and violence in others. These circumstances represent predisposing conditions for the occurrence of mental disorders. Tertiary and secondary prevention have proved insufficient to deal with such risk fac...

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Autores principales: Fernández Alvarez, Hector, Nicemboim, Eduardo
Formato: Artículo
Lenguaje:en_US
Publicado: Universidad de Belgrano. Facultad de Humanidades. Proyectos de Investigación 2014
Materias:
Trastornos mentales
Violencia
Prevención
Programa comunitario
Comunidades
Mental disorders
Violence
Prevention
Community program
Communities
Acceso en línea:http://repositorio.ub.edu.ar/handle/123456789/2941
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Repositorio Institucional - Universidad de Belgrano (UB) de Universidad de Belgrano
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topic Trastornos mentales
Violencia
Prevención
Programa comunitario
Comunidades
Mental disorders
Violence
Prevention
Community program
Communities
spellingShingle Trastornos mentales
Violencia
Prevención
Programa comunitario
Comunidades
Mental disorders
Violence
Prevention
Community program
Communities
Fernández Alvarez, Hector
Nicemboim, Eduardo
Prevention of mental disorders: Steps toward community interventions
topic_facet Trastornos mentales
Violencia
Prevención
Programa comunitario
Comunidades
Mental disorders
Violence
Prevention
Community program
Communities
description Current social conditions present a mixture of progress in some areas, together with destruction and violence in others. These circumstances represent predisposing conditions for the occurrence of mental disorders. Tertiary and secondary prevention have proved insufficient to deal with such risk factors, whereas primary prevention appears to be a powerful tool. This article presents a community program for the prevention of mental disorders, based on the following premises: (a) certain environmental factors place one at risk for mental illness; (b) those factors reflect the joint action of physical and social environments; (c) they are historical; (d) mental disorder results from the interaction of two factors: personal vulnerability conditions and environmental risk factors; (e) communities are a means by which social groups can adapt to the demands posed by life; and (f) the action produced by community health programs' agents, reflects service delivery policies. Guidelines are provided for four stages of program development: Program Preparation, Indirect Interventions, Direct Interventions, and Program Assessment.
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Nicemboim, Eduardo
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Nicemboim, Eduardo
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title Prevention of mental disorders: Steps toward community interventions
title_short Prevention of mental disorders: Steps toward community interventions
title_full Prevention of mental disorders: Steps toward community interventions
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title_full_unstemmed Prevention of mental disorders: Steps toward community interventions
title_sort prevention of mental disorders: steps toward community interventions
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publishDate 2014
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