Resources: Ch. 8 of Human Services in Contemporary America and Appendix E
Post a 200- to 300-word response to the following: 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?
The situation in scenario A is a very effective situation. I would have sent the wife to the same preventative program to learn how to rebuild her confidence. I believe situation A is categorized as a tertiary prevention effort since the woman needs to rehabilitate and return. I would have also tried to send services to the husband too to help him manage his anger as a plus.
The second situation is a primary prevention because they are trying to prevent a dysfunction, such as teen pregnancy from occurring. I believe the situation could have been handled a lot differently. I believe the human services could work with the Planned Parenthood facility and help them raise funds to stay open. This would take care of an unlimited amount of services to the girls, which would be better than the limited facility that we’d offer.
The third situation is a secondary prevention because it is preventing the homeless people from going hungry and getting too terribly sick. I agree strongly with the effectiveness of the preventative measures used in the example. At first I was thinking of using funds to get transportation available to the homeless, but like brainstorming in a group, I think that by bringing the services to them it will be more beneficial and extremely available.
