1st Edition
The Ecology of Prevention Illustrating Mental Health Consultation
By Robert E Hess
Copyright 1987
320 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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This provocative volume offers an enlightening look at mental health consultation as a preventive service. To enhance the prospects of consultation being preventive, consultation is defined as an ecological enterprise. Although attention is given to outcomes, process is the key in this book. This beneficial volume presents ten valuable principles to guide the work of a consultant, plus case... Read more
Contents
Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Conceptual Framework
- An Ecological Paradigm: Defining Mental Health Consultation as a Preventive Service
- 2. Four Illustrative Case Studies
- A Community Service for a Rural High School
- Prevention of Child Abuse: Two Contrasting Social Support Services
- Two Into One: An Ecological Perspective on School Consolidation
- A Partnership Approach to Consultation: The Process and Results of a Major Primary Prevention Field Experiment
- 3. Commentary
- Consultation as a Preventive Intervention: Comments on Ecologically Based Case Studies
Biography
Hess, Robert E
