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Prevention Programs

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A discussion of the prevention of child abuse or neglect, as any discussion of prevention, requires definition. In a seminal book Principles of Preventive Psychiatry (1964), Caplan defined three types of prevention, some of which were already in use by psychiatrists and psychologists as early as the mid-1960s: primary prevention, secondary prevention, and tertiary prevention. In this chapter, we will discuss these three levels of prevention generically, give a brief historical overview of past efforts to identify and prevent child abuse or neglect, define prevention in the area of child abuse or neglect, specifically when the intervention is intended to: prevent further abuse or prevent first abuse, consider some programs designed to prevent further abuse and others which focus on intervening before abuse occurs, and provide some recommendations for future prevention programs.

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Newman, M.R., Lutzker, J.R. (1990). Prevention Programs. In: Ammerman, R.T., Hersen, M. (eds) Children at Risk. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2088-4_9

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