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An Ecological Perspective on Pathways of Risk, Vulnerability, and Adaptation

Implications for Preventive Interventions

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Prevention has become a central goal among those concerned with a wide array of human conditions (Cowen, 1996; Feiner, Jason, Mortisugu, & Farber, 1983). At the start of the 1990s, the Secretary of Health and Human Services called prevention the nation’s number one health and social priority (Healthy People 2000, 1990). The reasons for prevention’s emergence as a central priority on the national health agenda are quite clear. Simply put, after-the-fact, reconstructive approaches have proven to be inadequate to the task of reducing the crushing levels of social and health problems confronting the nation.

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  1. Department of Education, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, 02881, USA

    Robert D. Felner

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Felner, R.D. (1999). An Ecological Perspective on Pathways of Risk, Vulnerability, and Adaptation. In: Russ, S.W., Ollendick, T.H. (eds) Handbook of Psychotherapies with Children and Families. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4755-6_25

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