A recent government initiative in your city has claimed that its goal is to reduce factors such as unemployment, racism, sexism, and violence so that the resulting mental disorders associated with those factors could also be reduced
The goal of this program from a community psychology perspective would best be described as:
a) primary prevention.
b) secondary prevention.
c) tertiary prevention.
d) concurrent prevention.
ANS: A, Primary prevention seeks to reduce and/or eliminate the potential causes of disorders, thus preventing the illnesses from occurring in the first place.
Psychology
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