Caplan (1964) developed the guiding principles for community mental health practice. Practice using Caplan's principles focuses on which of the following?
a. combined needs of population aggregates
b. etiology of specific mental illness
c. factors that promote or inhibit mental health
d. needs of individual clients in the community
C
Practice using Caplan's principles focuses on factors that promote or inhibit mental health. In Caplan's model, it is the community, not the individual, that is the client. Caplan's methods of preventive psychiatry have introduced the terms primary prevention, secondary prevention, and tertiary prevention into the lexicon.
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