Low-Cost Approaches to Promote Physical and Mental Health Theory, Re
Most physical and mental health professionals will agree that their time, space, and funds are generally in short supply, even under optimal conditions. Their participants (clients or patients), too, will admit to similar deficits of time and patience, ev
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Low-Cost Approaches to Promote Physical and Mental Health Theory, Research, and Practice
Edited by
Luciano L’Abate Professor Emeritus of Psychology Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia
Luciano L’Abate Georgia State University 2079 Deborah Drive Atlanta, GA 30345-3917 Email: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2001012345 ISBN-10: 0-387-36898-1 (Hardbound) ISBN-13: 978-0-387-36898-6 (Hardbound)
e-ISBN-10: 0-387-36899-X e-ISBN-13: 978-0-387-36899-3
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This book is dedicated to my beloved grandchildren, Alessandra and Ian Sterling L’Abate, so as they grow up they can use some of the approaches in this book and to Dennis D. Embry, Ph.D., who started the ball rolling with his vaccine metaphor.
Preface The purpose of this book is to cover the wide range of prescriptive approaches that have been found to produce noticeable and known physical, behavioral and psychological benefits with a minimum of cost and maximal mass-administration. Being possibly self-initiated and self-administrated activities, or interventions administered by others, face-to-face (f2f) contacts and talk are kept to a minimum. After learning how to use a particular activity, participants can go on their own without further contact with whoever is administering the approaches. In most cases, short written instructions may suffice. In editing this book, to keep its focus clear and specific, there was no interest in including or overlapping with prevention-oriented approaches (Albee & Gullotta, 1997; Baum & Singer, 2001; Bloom, 1996; Camic & Knight, 1998; Dalton, Elias, & Wandersman, 2001; Gullotta & Bloom, 2003; Kessler, Goldston, & Joffe, 1992). Consequently, no prolonged and costly approaches were included, such as training in social, or psycho-educational skills, assertiveness training, or anger management. Also not included were prolonged face-to-face talk-based interactions between participants and professionals, like traditional primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention approaches, such as psychotherapy, or crisis activity. The aim was to create a new tier of promotional approaches in their own right. If these approaches are contained within what has been called primary universal prevention,
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