Early Intervention in an International Perspective

Early Clinical Encounter: Report of an Intervention

Introduction. Encountering clinical environments as an inseparable part of studying medicine could bring about tension and anxiety for medical students. Early clinical exposure has been suggested in order to decrease these stresses and to motivate students for a better attitude and awareness. This study was performed to determine the effect of a short-term period of exposing to clinical envi...

Early intervention--a family perspective.

Mental Health First Aid: an international programme for early intervention.

AIM To describe the development of the Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) programme in Australia, its roll-out in other countries and evaluation studies which have been carried out. METHODS A description of the programme's development and evaluation, its cultural adaptations and its dissemination in seven countries. RESULTS The programme was developed in Australia in 2001. By the end of 2007, t...

Preventive intervention for early childhood behavioral problems: an ecological perspective.

The purpose of this article is to highlight the importance of preventive interventions targeting parents when addressing early childhood behavior problems. The authors briefly review evidence-based parent management training programs, focusing on one particular program, the Incredible Years (IY) Series. Next, the authors discuss the barriers to embedding evidence-based practice such as IY in co...

Early encounter to clinic report of an intervention

Introduction. Learning medicine could have many tension and anxieties like encounter to a strange educational and clinical environment. Early clinical exposure is supposed to suppress these stresses and motivate students with a better attitude and awareness. Methods. In an interventional study with a pretest –post test method 45 first and second year medical students were encountered to cli...