Prevention Specialist Certification
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Behavioral Health ✔✔A state of emotional/mental well-being and/or choices and actions that
affect health and wellness.
Is substance abuse a
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Prevention Specialist Certification
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Behavioral Health ✔✔A state of emotional/mental well-being and/or choices and actions that
affect health and wellness.
Is substance abuse a behavioral health problem? ✔✔Yes- so is addiction, mental disorders,
psychological distress, and suicide.
Behavioral health service systems include: ✔✔Mental health promotion, SUD/mental health
disorder prevention, SUD/mental health disorder treatment, recovery support
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines of public health as... ✔✔"It is what we, as a society, do
collectively to assure the conditions for people to healthy."
What are the key characteristics of the public health approach? ✔✔1) Promotion and Prevention
2) Population based (not on one individual but the affected population)
3) Risk and protective factors
4) Multiple contexts- individuals are influenced by different environments
5) Developmental perspective
6) Planning Process
The "What" of the public health approach refers to: ✔✔"What" substance use and behavioral
problems need to be addressed?
The "When" of the public health approach refers to: ✔✔"When in the lifespan-at what specific
developmental stage- is the population group that the interventions focus on?"
What is the IOM Continuum of Care? ✔✔The IOM Continuum of Care is a classification system
that presents the scope of behavioral health interventions and services, including: promotion of
health, prevention of illness/disorder, treatment, and maintenance/recovery.
What does "promotion" involve? ✔✔Promotion involves interventions that enable people "to
increase control over, and to improve, their health."
Prevention ✔✔Prevention focuses on interventions that occur prior to the onset of a disorder and
which are intended to prevent he occurrence of the disorder or reduce risk for the disorder.
The three main types of prevention interventions including: ✔✔1) Universal, 2) Selective, 3)
Indicated
What type of intervention is the following: "community policies that promote access to early
childhood education." ✔✔Universal
Which type of intervention is the following: "Peer support groups for adults with a history of
family substance abuse." ✔✔Selective
Which type of intervention is the following
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