Self-understanding, envisioning the future, and prevention: An appreciation and a reflection on the occasion of the 100th anniversary

This article is a personal reflection on one practitioner's evolution of thought on resilience and preventive intervention, starting with interviewing civil rights workers, to conceptualizing self-understanding as an essential component of resilience, to the development of a family-based preventive intervention for parental depression, which was disseminated, adapted, and incorporated into a growing body of prevention research. Consensus statements on mental health prevention from the National Academies are reviewed, and the importance of a social justice perspective is highlighted throughout. The article concludes with principles for developing effective preventive interventions to promote mental health today, and in the future. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).PMID:38512187 | DOI:10.1037/ort0000733
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Source Type: research