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Question: Explain Prevention and Intervention in your own words.

A prevention and intervention program entails early education strategies that target social, as well as emotional development in children thus becoming of significance in eradicating the escalation of behaviors that seems maladaptive. Prevention programs entail different strategies of intervention that solely depend on the risks status of children. For example, universal interventions target all children and get enforced as classroom activities' curriculum that facilitates the development of the emotional, as well as the social competencies of the children. However, this program does not appear effective on patients with problems that are externalized as those individuals with minimal behavioral problems get included in the community-based intervention (McCabe & Altamura, 2011).

Moreover, selective or indicated interventions constitute secondary programs that are significant in high-risk children and encompass training by teachers. Such interventions get aimed at improving strategies of classroom training management. It also entails small group training associated with minimal levels of externalized issues with high-risk persons. They get implemented by specialists or teachers and aim at mediating deficits of skills thus minimizing the problem of children with behavioral distrubances, aas well as social-emotional delays. Empirical studies by Bierman & Domitrovich (2012) affirm that the coordination of the indicated and the universal interventions provide an optimal provision of services, therefore, availing the appropriate levels of support families and children with different levels of needs.

Additionally, these interventions facilitate strong peer relations and targets emotional or social skills associated with acceptance of oneself, and protectecting children against peer rejection. The emotional and social competencies get taught using sophisticated strategies that involve practical activities, skills demostrations and explanations.

References: Biermura, K.L., Domitrovich, C., Darling, H. (2012). Early prevention initiatives. In J. Roopnarine & J. Johnson, eds. Approaches to early childhood education. Columbus, OH: Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall.

McCabe, P. C., Altamura, M. (2011). Empirically valid strategies to improve social and emotional competence of preschool children. Pyschology in the Schools.

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