What Is Primary Prevention ?
What is ISDV?
What is integrated primary prevention ?
What is an integrated primary prevention approach?
What are protective factors?
What are risk factors?
Levels of Prevention
ISDV
ISDV is shorted to represent interpersonal violence and self-directed violence. Interpersonal violence includes sexual assault and harassment, intimate partner violence and abuse (aka domestic abuse), child abuse and neglect, and workplace violence (including harassment, bullying, and hazing). Self-directed violence includes any harmful behaviors and suicide.
Primary Prevention
Primary prevention is a strategy that aims to reduce risk as early as possible, delay the onset of adverse health problems, or reduce the likelihood that an individual will engage in harmful behaviors.
Integrated Primary Prevention
Integrated primary prevention refers to activities that simultaneously address multiple self-directed harm and prohibited abusive or harmful acts.
Integrated Primary Prevention Approach
An integrated primary prevention approach directs that ISDV prevention policies, programs, and resources should incorporate seven elements: Strengthening access and delivery of prevention and intervention; creating protective environments; promoting connectedness; developing coping and problem-solving skills; identifying and supporting members of the military community who are at risk; promoting reduction in self-harm and reducing future risk; and promoting financial readiness.
Protective Factors. (n.d.). Connecticut Suicide Advisory Board. Retrieved from https://www.preventsuicidect.org/about-suicide/protective-factors/.
Protective Factors
Protective factors are skills, strengths, or resources that help people deal more effectively with stressful events. Protective factors enhance resilience and help to counterbalance risk factors. Protective factors may be personal (e.g., attitudes and values prohibiting suicide) or external or environmental (e.g., strong relationships, particularly with family members).
Risk Factors
Risk factors are those caused by stress, trauma, or other circumstances that cause a schism in protective factors. Risk factors may encompass biological, psychological, or social factors in the individual, family, and environment.
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