Primary prevention is concerned with the elimination of conditions that
produce emotional illness and with the promotion of conditions that will foster mental health.
Not exact matches
Serious
illness usually
produces a substantial
emotional crisis.
The very qualities which make possible a growth -
producing family — tenderness, compassion,
emotional maturity in parents — are in short supply or are early casualties of the
illness of alcoholism.
In its milder forms it
produces loneliness and unhappiness; in more severe forms, it causes the personality distortions of
emotional malnutrition; in extreme and protracted forms, it
produces relational - starvation and the eventual death of creativity and coping, as seen in mental
illness.