ATI COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDY GUIDE MDC(IV)2023- 2024 UPDATE

ATI
COMMUNITY
HEALTH
STUDY GUIDE
MDC(IV)2023-
2024 UPDATE
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Strategies to reduce societal violence prevention’s
Primary prevention
- Teach alternative methods of conflict resolution anger management, and coping
strategies and community settings.
- Organize parenting classes to provide anticipatory guidance of expected age
appropriate behaviors, appropriate parental responses, and forms of discipline
- Educate clients about community services that are available to provide protection
from violence
- Promote public understanding about the aging process and about safeguards to
ensure a safe and secure environment for older adults in the community
- Assist in removing or reducing factors that contribute to stress by referring caretakers
of older adult clients to respite services, assisting an unemployed parent to finding
employment, or increasing social support networks for socially isolated families
- Encourage older adults and their families to safeguard their funds and property by
getting more information about a financial representative trust, durable power of
attorney, a representative payee, and joint tenancy
- Teach individuals and no one has a right to touch or hurt any person, and make sure
they know how to report cases of abuse
Secondary prevention
- Identifying screen those at risk for abuse and individuals who are potential abusers
- assess and evaluate any unexplained bruises or injuries of any individual
- Screen all pregnant women for potential abuse. This might be the one time in
someone's lives that they can access the healthcare system on a regular basis
- Refer sexual assault or rape survivors to the local emergency department for
assessment by asexual I saw abuse team. Cautioned the client not to bathe following
the assault because it will destroy physical evidence
- Assessing counsel anyone contemplating suicide or homicide, and refer the
individual to the appropriate services
- Support and educate the offender, even though a report must be made
- Assess and help offenders address and deal with the stressors that can be causing or
contributing to the abuse (mental illness, substance use)
- alert all involved about available resources within the community
- Advocate for legislation designed to assist older adult independence and caregivers
and to increase funding for programs that supply services to low income, at risk
individuals
tertiary prevention
- establish parameters for long term follow up and supervision
- Makes resources in the community available to survivors of violence (telephone
numbers of crisis lines and shelters)
- if court systems are involved, work with parents while the child is out of the home
(in foster care) - refer to mental health professionals for long term assistance
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- Provide grief counseling to families following the death of a family member to
suicide or homicide
- Develop support groups for caregivers and survivors of violence