Community Psychology: Prevention and Promotion - Key Concepts

This report provides an overview of the principles of prevention and promotion within the field of community psychology, focusing on the concepts and strategies to address problem behaviors and promote social competence. It explores the need for intervention, highlighting factors contributing to behavioral disorders and the importance of fostering positive interactions and self-esteem. The report discusses Caplan's primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention models, along with selective and indicated measures. It examines the role of risk and resiliency, the prevention equations, and various prevention programs, including best practices approaches and strategies like reinforcement and scheduled attention. Finally, it addresses the implementation of effective prevention and promotion programs, emphasizing theory-driven, evidence-based, and culturally relevant approaches. The report draws on the work of Kloos et al. (2012), Barbee (2014), Nelson & Prilleltensky (2010), and Trickett (1996).

Principles of
community
psychology
Chapter 9: Prevention and
promotion- key concepts.

Outline
• Introduction
• Why there is a need of addressing problem
behaviour
• Why there is a need of promoting social
competence
• Concepts of Prevention and Promotion
• The prevention equations
• Prevention programs
• The implementation of prevention and promotion
programs
• Chapter Summary

Introduction
• There are so many behavioral disorder which are caused due to
so many factors like:
• Family issues
• Majorly, due to parenting style being contradictory as well as inconsistent
• Child neglect or abuse
• Overindulgence of parents
• Chronic illness or injury
• Separation
Thus, based on above reasons, the key aspects and concepts of Prevention
and promotion will be discussed.

Why there is a need of
addressing problem behavior
• When children behavior is not managed efficiently
then overall development cannot occur
• When children behavior is not managed efficiently
then learning cannot occur
• To know, who classroom dynamic and quality of
life has been affected children, students and other
learners

Why there is a need of
promoting social competence
• To address challenging behavior of the learners
• To allow learners learn and evolve more
• To improve self esteem of the children and other learners
• To foster positive interactions and feelings among students
• To improve adult-child or we can say parent-children
relationships
• To reduce the change of problem behavior at the early
childhood stage

Key functions of behaviour

Concepts of Prevention and
Promotion
• Prevention is a commonsense concept
• The concept of Prevention and Promotion is used by
community psychologists
• The concepts are used to understand individual
people as well as communities.
• In this context, the key concepts are:
• Caplan: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Prevention
• Selective, and Indicated Measures
• The IOM Report: Universal
• Prevention of Disorder
• Promotion of Wellness Competence

Caplan: Primary, Secondary,
and Tertiary Prevention

The Concept: Prevention and
Promotion

Promotion: Risk and Resiliency
• Resiliency refers to the ability of some individuals
to overcome adverse conditions and experience
healthy development.
• There are some useful examples to understand
promotion with the help of risk and resiliency:
• Individual Differences
• Relationships
• Community Resources and Opportunities

The Prevention Equations
• The Prevention Equations is an integrative guide
for Research and Action
• Risk Factors are often used as the Numerators
• Protective Factors are being seen as the Denominator
• Thus, equations are as follows:
• 1.
• 2.

Prevention programs
• Prevention programs always work in order to foster
learning, good behavior and development.
• In this context, there are ways to understand how they
actually work
• There is a tool for deriving effective prevention
programming; the best practices approach.
• In addition, this approach includes qualitative analysis in
addition to the quantitative approach taken by
metaanalysis.