Editorial: Prevention is the best cure – or is it? A cautionary tale

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Bringing you some selected Open Access journal papers from our portfolio; The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP), Child and Adolescent Mental Health journal (CAMH), and JCPP Advances.

Posted on 15 December 2023

Tags: Mental health, Adolescents… Show all

Topics: Mental health
Populations: Adolescents
Interventions: Prevention
Publication Types: Blog, Editorial, Journal article

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‘Editorial: Prevention is the best cure – or is it? A cautionary tale’

Free Access paper from the JCPP

In large parts of the Western world prevention is considered a necessary, core component of successful youth care practice. Yet, mental health problems in young people do not appear to have declined over the past decades. How to explain this paradox? In this editorial for the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, several possible explanations are explored, one of which centers around how prevention is being operationalized—primarily, nowadays, as a screen-and-resolve ‘troubleshooting’ approach, rather than as an approach that supports the development of good health, competence, and resilience.

Authors: Geertjan Overbeek

First published: 15 December 2023

https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13916

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