Tertiary intervention: Conceptual framework for school counselor education and practice
✍ Scribed by Avigdor Klingman
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 317 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0165-0653
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✦ Synopsis
Although the concepts of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention have been prevalent in the literature of the helping professions, the potential for tertiary intervention within the educational system is largely unrealized. The purpose of the article is to clarify this concept, to delineate some of the areas in which tertiary prevention can be implemented by school counselors, and to suggest how it may be incorporated in school counselor education.
The three-stage model of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention in public health was adapted by Caplan (1964) to preventive psychiatry and community mental health. Primary prevention focuses on lowering the incidence of mental health problems, secondary prevention on early identification and prompt treatment of problems, and tertiary prevention on reducing the long-term effects of disabilities. While both primary and secondary stages of prevention have been elaborated in the professional literature of school psychology and school guidance and counseling (e.g.