Preventive psychiatry: Concept appraisal and future directions.
Preventive psychiatry is a branch of psychiatry that aims at health promotion, protection from specific mental illnesses, early diagnosis, effective treatment, disability limitation and rehabilitation. Prevention of neuropsychiatric illnesses as compared to other illnesses is particularly important as they run a chronic course and cause substantial disability. Preventive measures have been found to be effective in reducing incidence and disability in a wide range of mental illnesses such as depression, psychosis, anxiety and conduct disorders. The need of the hour is to translate advances in our understanding of mental illness into effective intervention programmes for the prevention of mental illness and the promotion of positive mental health.
['Trivedi|Jitendra K|JK|', 'Tripathi|Adarsh|A|', 'Dhanasekaran|Saranya|S|', 'Moussaoui|Driss|D|']
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Preventive psychiatry concepts future directions evidence-based interventions