1st Edition
The National Mental Health Association Eighty Years of Involvement in the Field of Prevention
By Robert E Hess
Copyright 1989
318 Pages
by
Routledge
318 Pages
by
Routledge
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Here is a unique and important volume that pays tribute to the contributions of the National Mental Health Association to the field of prevention. For more than 80 years, the National Mental Health Association has been a major force in the advancement of the field of prevention. It has pursued an impressive three-pronged mission of promoting health, preventing mental illness, and improving the... Read more
Contents
Introduction
- I. The Mental Health Association and Prevention: A History
- The Mental Health Association and Prevention
- II. The Contributions of Local Associations
- Prevention Among Mental Health Associations
- Advocacy for Prevention: The Role of the Mental Health Association in Michigan
- Choices for Positive Living: A Private/Public Partnership Program to Promote Mental Fitness and Self-Esteem in Adults and Children
- Parents as Teachers Project
- WHO--We Help Ourselves: A Project in Anti-Victimization
- Welcome Baby Programs
- The Youth Booth in the Mall: Reaching Youth in the 80s
- Parenting Education: Primary Prevention in a Rural Community
- The Inner “I”
- Primary Prevention in the Chicago Public Schools
- III. The Lela Rowland Prevention Award Recipients
- Pierre the Pelican
- Optimum Growth Project: Support for Families With Young Children
- Stress Containment Through Meditation
- Interpersonal Cognitive Problem Solving (ICPS): A Competence-Building Primary Prevention Program
- The Infant-Family Resource Program: Facilitating Optimal Development
- The Primary Mental Health Project: Thirty Years After
- Stress Management Training for Low Income Women
- Early Childhood Education and Primary Prevention
Biography
Robert E Hess
