As a community psychologist you have been hired to design a violence prevention program for a local school district.Your target population includes teenagers who have been convicted of violent crimes.Therefore your program will,by necessity,involve

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Tertiary prevention focuses on reducing the negative impact of an existing problem. In this case, the teenagers have already been convicted of violent crimes, so the violence prevention program would have to focus on reducing the likelihood of future violent behavior and mitigating the harm caused by their past behavior. Primary prevention focuses on preventing the problem from occurring in the first place, and secondary prevention focuses on early detection and intervention for those at risk of developing the problem, which are not the appropriate approaches in this specific case. Forensic prevention is not a recognized term in psychology or public health.

As a Community Psychologist You Have Been Hired to Design