Select the example of tertiary prevention
a. Helping a person with serious and persistent mental illness learn to manage money.
b. Restraining a psychotic patient who has become aggressive and assaultive.
c. Teaching school-age children about the dangers of drugs and alcohol.
d. Genetic counseling with a young couple expecting their first child.
A
Tertiary prevention involves services that address residual impairments, with a goal of improved independent functioning. Restraint is a secondary prevention. Genetic counseling and teaching school-age children about substance abuse and dependence are examples of primary prevention.
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