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The Prevention of Childhood Behavior Disorders

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Advances in Clinical Child Psychology

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The idea of preventing behavioral disorders has great intuitive appeal. In addition to sparing children and their families needless suffering, the prevention of behavioral problems would ease the service burden on overextended educational and community treatment services and would constitute a social and an economic blessing. There are many different types of potential preventive measures, and prevention programs can be aimed at various points in the development of a behavioral disorder. Caplan (1964) has suggested distinguishing among prevention efforts in terms of their temporal focus. The term primary prevention is used for programs intended to reduce the incidence of new cases of various types of disorders. Two other types of intervention occur after individuals have been identified as exhibiting problems. Programs aimed at reducing the duration or severity of a problem are termed secondary prevention efforts; andtertiary prevention consists of attempts to reduce long-term disability such as that leading to chronic institutionalization. While useful, Caplan’s scheme does not entirely resolve classification problems, since variations in definitions of target behavior and stated program goals can result in differing category placement for essentially identical programs. For example, a project dealing with children who have committed criminal acts might be conceived as a secondary prevention effort to see that an existing problem does not worsen.

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Gelfand, D.M., Hartmann, D.P. (1977). The Prevention of Childhood Behavior Disorders. In: Lahey, B.B., Kazdin, A.E. (eds) Advances in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9799-1_10

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