psychology
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| 270126950 | Key Factors in Group Therapy | 1. Hope 2. Universality 3. Information 4. Social Support 5. Development of Social Skills 6. Interpersonal Learning 7. Group Comprehensiveness | |
| 270126951 | Traditional Groups vs. Peer Self-Help Groups | Peer self-help groups (e.g. AA) work to resolve problems without the assistance of a mental health professional; in order to be a member, on emus have the problem | |
| 270126952 | Family Therapies | Strategic (focus is on changing communication patterns) versus structural therapy (focus is on changing family values) | |
| 270126953 | Marital Therapy | focuses on changing maladaptive interaction patterns between couples (e.g. "caring days", decreasing maladaptive cognitions); importance of mutual involvement in treatment. | |
| 270126954 | Primary Prevention | preventing mental disorders from developing in the first place 1. create environments that are conductive to mental health 2. make individuals strong enough to avoid risk factors 3. teach skills to people that allow them to cope with risk factors 4. designed to impact on entire population | |
| 270126955 | Secondary Prevention | focuses on reducing risk for mental disorder in individuals who are most likely to develop that disorder 1. high risk populations must be identified 2. an intervention is applied 3. universal, selective, and indicative preventative interventions 4. mental health promotion can be thought of as enhancement of individuals well-being | |
| 270126956 | Tertiary Prevention | focuses on facilitating the readjustment of the individual to community life after hospital treatment for a mental disorder | |
| 270126957 | Mental health is not just the absence of mental illness | 1. mentally healthy person functions well physically, socially, and spiritually 2. purpose of mental health promotion is to enhance competence, self-esteem, resilience, and sense of well-being rather than to prevent mental disorder | |
| 270126958 | Efficacy of these programs is unknown | 1. many aspects of these programs do not fall into category of prevention 2. some programs may be harmful |
