Essential reading for people interested in preventing mental health problems, youth substance use, risky driving behaviors, aggressive and delinquent behaviors, adolescent violence, and self-inflicted injury:
Unleashing the Power of Prevention and A Challenge to Unleash the Power of Prevention, both released last month by the Institute of Medicine.
The first article starts
with: Every day across America,
behavioral health problems in childhood and adolescence, from anxiety to
violence, take a heavy toll on millions of lives. For decades the approach to
these problems has been to treat them only after they’ve been identified—at a high
and ongoing cost to young people, families, entire communities, and our nation.
Now we have a 30-year body of research and more than 50 programs showing that
behavioral health problems can be prevented. This critical mass of prevention
science is converging with growing interest in prevention across health care,
education, child psychiatry, child welfare, and juvenile justice. Together, we
stand at the threshold of a new age of prevention. The challenge now is to
mobilize across disciplines and communities to unleash the power of prevention
on a nationwide scale.
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