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Prevention Specialist Certification Questions and Answers Already Graded A 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 [Show More]

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