Jill and Jake have a 6-year-old child, Jesse.Jesse was going to the bathroom at day care and asked for help cleaning up.His day care provider noticed welts on his bottom and filed a CPS report.The child welfare worker opened a case and created a case plan that included treatments aimed at preventing spanking or corporal punishment from happening in the future and addressing the trauma associated with the previous discipline tactics.Caplan would define this as:

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Tertiary prevention aims to reduce the impact of an already established problem by intervening after a problem has been identified, as in this case where interventions are implemented after the child has already been harmed by corporal punishment.

Jill and Jake Have a 6-Year-Old Child, Jesse