Scenario 1: Violence Prevention in a High-Risk Community

After reading scenario 1, I would have to say tertiary prevention was used to help the battered

woman with efforts to reduce the damage that the enraged man may have inflicted on her. Many

battered women come to believe they deserve to be beaten, or they believe they cannot make it in life

without the person that is battering them or even believe they could never get anyone other than the

abuser. Using tertiary prevention would be the right strategy to use in this situation because sending

her to a shelter with classes in self esteem, parenting, job training and placement will give her back the

self esteem that her abuser took from her. Yes, I think tertiary prevention is the right strategy for this

scenario, but safe housing would be included after the completion of the program.

Scenario 2: Closure of a Planned Parenthood Clinic

Scenario 2 used primary prevention, providing limited family planning services will allow the

community to learn how to prevent more unintended pregnancies and slow down the spread of sexually

transmitted diseases, although that is not mentioned in the readings. I believe the strategy used in this

scenario can be effective, but I do not think limited family planning will be enough to educate the

teens, so they understand the complications and financial burdens that's associated with having children

that they are not ready to have.

Scenario 3: Caring for the Homeless

In this scenario, secondary prevention is used, providing primary health services in the shelters

will help to diagnose and treat medical problems before they become a serious concern. The

prevention strategy used is effective; there is a place in my city that does something like this, but the

difference is they are not located in the shelters, but in a building two doors down from the shelter. I

would not do anything different from the way this was done.

|Week Six: Determining Levels of Prevention |
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| |Points Earned |Points Possible |
|Resource (Reference): Ch. 8 of Human Services in Contemporary America |20 |20 |
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|Analyze the scenarios in Appendix E and describe the level of prevention each | | |
|scenario addresses. | | |
|Do you think the prevention strategy used in the scenario is effective? | | |
|If not, what would you do differently? | | |
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|Post the questions and your answers as a Microsoft® Word attachment. | | |
|Sentences are complete, clear, concise, and error-free; rules of grammar usage, |5 |5 |
|spelling, and punctuation are followed. | | |
|Late Penalty (10% per day - cannot exceed four days) |N/A | |
|Total |25 |25 |
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