Citation

Kornberg MS, Caplan G. J. Prev. 1980; 1(2): 71-133.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1980, Human Sciences Press)

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Abstract

The paper reviews 650 recent papers on bio-psycho-social risk factors and on methods for the primary prevention of childhood psychological disorders. It summarizes recent conceptual models of primary prevention based on combatting risk factors and promoting the competences that might be eroded by these factors. A number of intervention programs are then described and discussed, focused on maternal factors, poverty, infant stimulation, mother-child interaction, and daycare and pre-school competence promotion in children with and without specific education of parents. Methods and techniques of preventive intervention are summarized - crisis intervention, development of support systems, and consultation of caregivers - and the paper then reviews specific intervention programs focused on family disruption, hospitalization and illness, transitional periods, and school failure.