Promotion of social change: a conceptual framework (1)

American Journal of Community Psychology,  June, 2002  by Vivian Tseng

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Throughout the last few decades, there have been several calls for theoretical development in the prevention of mental and social disorders and the promotion of wellness and social competencies. Primary prevention has been iteratively discussed and defined as efforts to prevent mental illness or adjustment problems (Albee, 1982; Coie et al., 1993; Cowen, 1977), but social scientists have been slower to answer the calls for advancing promotion efforts (Cowen, 1994).

Those who have undertaken promotion efforts have often cast promotion as an extension of prevention goals. Thus, the promotion of specific competencies is frequently viewed as a means of preventing ...