PSY-35 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Community Psychology, Health Promotion
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This type of service delivery, long referred to as the waiting mode is characteristics of traditional therapy, whether inpatient or outpatient. Community psychology operates in the seeking mode . Rather than waiting for people to initiate contact, community psychologists seek out problemsor even potential problems. Often focus on prevention in coast to the more usual situation of trying to reduce the severityor duration of an existing problem. Focus to a much greater degree on preventive measures if we are ever going to solve a problem of mental illness in canada. There is a need for programs that promote the psychological, social, and physical well-beingof all people in canada. Althought we have had some success, we have a long way to go. Despite a proclamation by governments in canada that child poverty would be eliminated by 200, it increases. Ongoing programs promising to ful ll prevention goals in the future.
