PREVENTION IN COLLEGE HEALTH - COUNSELING PERSPECTIVES

Such problems as sexually transmitted diseases, alcohol and other drug use, and acquaintance rape require college health professionals to fu nction in primary and secondary preventive roles. In this article, the authors draw upon counseling literature and college health practice t o identify the central elements of preventive programs, highlight spec ific intervention formats used in preventive work, and describe how in terventions are assembled into coherent programs of prevention. To ill ustrate the structure and process of long-range, institutionalized pre ventive efforts, the authors describe an initiative addressing the pri mary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of substance use at a health sciences campus.