@article{712095,
      author = {Romano, John L.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/712095},
      title = {Prevention psychology : enhancing personal and social  well-being /},
      abstract = {"Few would argue about the benefits of prevention. We all  receive messages daily about the importance of a  maintaining a healthy diet and body weight, getting enough  sleep, practicing safe sex, avoiding the dangers of  tobacco, and using alcohol responsibly, to list just a few.  All of these efforts are made to ward off physical and  psychological ills and to promote personal well-being by  maintaining healthy lifestyles now and in the future. Some  people will strictly adhere to prevention and health  promotion practices, others will ignore them, and most will  attempt to follow some of them with varying degrees of  success. Prevention science as a professional specialty has  goals similar to those of individual, self-directed efforts  to promote health. However, prevention science seeks to  prevent psychological and physical ills and promote overall  health and well-being through evidence-based practices at  individual and systemic levels. Therefore, prevention is  important because the professional specialty addresses  health promotion at individual levels of intervention, as  well as through larger social levels of intervention to  improve and strengthen health and well-being across  society. Prevention is an interdisciplinary specialty that  requires conceptual sophistication, research, and policy  actions from multiple disciplines, including psychology,  counseling, social work, education, health sciences,  economics, and public affairs. Given the major advances in  prevention in recent years, a major goal of this book is to  present in one volume prevention as a specialty in  psychology with applicability to other mental health  professions. The book is designed to close a gap in the  education and training of students, psychologists, other  mental health professionals, and those in other professions  who desire increased knowledge and training in prevention.  The book is a broad-based and resource-rich introduction to  prevention, giving attention to interventions and research  in different settings across the life span. The content is  appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate  students desiring an introduction to prevention history,  theory, research, and applications, and also for  professionals who have received little, if any, education  and training in prevention"--Introduction. (PsycINFO  Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).},
      recid = {712095},
      pages = {x, 221 pages :},
}