Community mental health nurses have been mobilized to provide crisis intervention for the students at a school where a mass murder just occurred. What type of prevention strategy is this?
A) Primary
B) Secondary
C) Tertiary
D) Interventional
Ans: B
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Secondary prevention focuses on interventions that identify mental health problems early and reduce the duration and prevalence of mental illness. Examples for community mental health nurses include conducting screening surveys that focus on identifying mental illness in people within schools or the community, referring clients for mental health treatment, and providing crisis intervention to a community that has encountered a natural or man-made disaster
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