Ati Community Health Study Guide Mdc(Iv)

ATI COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDY GUIDE MDC(IV)2023- 2024 UPDATE Strategies to reduce societal violence prevention’s Primary prevention - Teach alternative methods of conflict resolution anger management, and coping strategies and community settings. - Organize parenting classes to provide anticipatory guidance of expected age appropriate behaviors, appropriate parental responses, and forms of discipline - Educate clients about community services that are available to provide protection from violence - Promote public understanding about the aging process and about safeguards to ensure a safe and secure environment for older adults in the community - Assist in removing or reducing factors that contribute to stress by referring caretakers of older adult clients to respite services, assisting an unemployed parent to finding employment, or increasing social support networks for socially isolated families - Encourage older adults and their families to safeguard their funds and property by getting more information about a financial representative trust, durable power of attorney, a representative payee, and joint tenancy - Teach individuals and no one has a right to touch or hurt any person, and make sure they know how to report cases of abuse Secondary prevention - Identifying screen those at risk for abuse and individuals who are potential abusers - assess and evaluate any unexplained bruises or injuries of any individual - Screen all pregnant women for potential abuse. This might be the one time in someone's lives that they can access the healthcare system on a regular basis - Refer sexual assault or rape survivors to the local emergency department for assessment by asexual I saw abuse team. Cautioned the client not to bathe following the assault because it will destroy physical evidence - Assessing counsel anyone contemplating suicide or homicide, and refer the individual to the appropriate services - Support and educate the offender, even though a report must be made - Assess and help offenders address and deal with the stressors that can be causing or contributing to the abuse (mental illness, substance use) - alert all involved about available resources within the community - Advocate for legislation designed to assist older adult independence and caregivers and to increase funding for programs that supply services to low income, at risk individuals tertiary prevention - establish parameters for long term follow up and supervision - Makes resources in the community available to survivors of violence (telephone numbers of crisis lines and shelters) - if court systems are involved, work with parents while the child is out of the home (in foster care) - refer to mental health professionals for long term assistance lOMoARcPSD| - - Provide grief counseling to families following the death of a family member to suicide or homicide - Develop support groups for caregivers and survivors of violence Strategies to reduce substance use disorders preventions Primary prevention - Increase public awareness, particularly among young people, regarding the hazards and risks of dependence associated with substance use (public education campaigns, school education programs) - encourage development of life skills - Assists in the formation of parental action and awareness groups, much as mothers against drunk driving (MADD)