ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the fundamental types and goals of prevention, and describes the four major forms of prevention technology, and offer some examples of how instructional activities can be based on such technology. The four major forms of prevention technology are: Education, Community Organization/Systems Intervention, Competency Promotion and Natural Care Giving. Many students taking a course in adolescent development are being prepared for careers in education, nursing, psychology, social work, and related allied social science occupations. A related tool is known as community resource development. The accompanying activity is to achieve an equitable distribution of power to improve the standard of living of a given group of people within a community. Courses in adolescent development are ideal settings to promote the prevention model. Students learn very practical skills that can be applied in their future work contexts. In assessing strategies of tertiary prevention, students must consider the difficult and frequently unanswered issues of rehabilitation and the prevention of relapse.
