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099 WORLD WIDE WEB|aE-BOOK|aEBSCO
100 1 Romano, John L.
245 10 Prevention psychology :|benhancing personal and social
well-being /|cby John L. Romano.
264 1 Washington, D.C. :|bAmerican Psychological Association,
|c2015.
300 x, 216 pages ;|ccm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 computer|bc|2rdamedia
338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier
500 GMD: electronic resource.
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 Introduction -- History of prevention -- Prevention
theories for behavior change -- Protective factors :
promoting strengths and building positive behaviors --
Social justice and public policy advocacy -- Prevention
applications in educational settings -- Prevention
applications in community and medical settings --
Recommendations for developing, implementing, and
evaluating prevention interventions -- Prevention ethics,
education, and funding -- Mapping a future agenda for
prevention psychology.
520 "Few would argue about the benefits of prevention. We all
receive messages daily about the importance of a
maintaining a healthy diet and body weight, getting enough
sleep, practicing safe sex, avoiding the dangers of
tobacco, and using alcohol responsibly, to list just a
few. All of these efforts are made to ward off physical
and psychological ills and to promote personal well-being
by maintaining healthy lifestyles now and in the future.
Some people will strictly adhere to prevention and health
promotion practices, others will ignore them, and most
will attempt to follow some of them with varying degrees
of success. Prevention science as a professional specialty
has goals similar to those of individual, self-directed
efforts to promote health. However, prevention science
seeks to prevent psychological and physical ills and
promote overall health and well-being through evidence-
based practices at individual and systemic levels.
Therefore, prevention is important because the
professional specialty addresses health promotion at
individual levels of intervention, as well as through
larger social levels of intervention to improve and
strengthen health and well-being across society.
Prevention is an interdisciplinary specialty that requires
conceptual sophistication, research, and policy actions
from multiple disciplines, including psychology,
counseling, social work, education, health sciences,
economics, and public affairs. Given the major advances in
prevention in recent years, a major goal of this book is
to present in one volume prevention as a specialty in
psychology with applicability to other mental health
professions. The book is designed to close a gap in the
education and training of students, psychologists, other
mental health professionals, and those in other
professions who desire increased knowledge and training in
prevention. The book is a broad-based and resource-rich
introduction to prevention, giving attention to
interventions and research in different settings across
the life span. The content is appropriate for advanced
undergraduate and graduate students desiring an
introduction to prevention history, theory, research, and
applications, and also for professionals who have received
little, if any, education and training in prevention"--
Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all
rights reserved).
530 Also issued in print.
533 Electronic reproduction.|bWashington, D.C. :|cAmerican
Psychological Association,|d2014.|nAvailable via World
Wide Web.|nAccess limited by licensing agreement.|7s2014
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650 0 Stress (Psychology)|xPrevention.
650 0 Developmental psychology.
650 0 School violence|xPrevention.
650 2 Stress, Psychological|xprevention & control.
650 2 Violence|xprevention & control.
776 0 Original|w(DLC) 2014006057
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