Skip to main content
Key Specialties
Cardiology Diabetology Endocrinology Gastroenterology Geriatrics and Gerontology Gynecology and Obstetrics Hematology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Oncology Pediatrics Respiratory Medicine Rheumatology Surgery
Congress Coverage
2024 ACC Congress 2023 ESMO Congress 2023 EASD Congress 2023 ERS Congress 2023 ESC Congress
Clinical Collections
Advances in Alzheimer’s

At a glance: The STEP trials

A round-up of the STEP phase 3 clinical trials evaluating semaglutide for weight loss in people with overweight or obesity.
ADVANCED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 5/2015

01-05-2015 | Original Paper

Preventing brain disorders: a framework for action

Authors: Sasha Rudenstine, Sandro Galea

Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | Issue 5/2015

Login to get access

Abstract

Introduction

Prevention efforts have greatly reduced the prevalence of many communicable and non-communicable diseases worldwide. In contrast, prevention strategies for mental disorders remain in their infancy. This paper provides a summary of the key issues surrounding mental disorder prevention and proposes a framework for how to catalyze action in the area.

Materials and methods

Three core assumptions guide this work (1) the onset of mental disorders is often preventable, (2) among those individuals with a mental disorder, the trajectory of health and functioning can be shaped by external resources, and (3) many specific and generic risk and protective factors for mental disorders are associated with specific stages of the life course.

Conclusion

We propose that the adoption of a life course approach to prevention can be clarifying and motivating for both research and practice.
Literature
1.
2.
Mrazek PJ, Haggerty RJ (eds) (1994) Reducing risks for mental disorders: frontiers for preventive intervention research. Committee on Prevention of Mental Disorders, National Institute of Medicine. National Academic Press, Washington, DC
3.
Jacka FN, Reavley NJ, Jorm AF, Toumbourou JW, Lewis AJ, Berk M (2013) Prevention of common mental disorders: what can we learn from those who have gone before and where do we go next? Aust N Z J Psychiatry 47(10):920–929CrossRefPubMed
4.
Trivedi JK, Tripathi A, Dhanasekaran S, Moussaoui D (2013) Preventive psychiatry: concept appraisal and future directions. Int J Soc Psychiatry 60(4):321–329CrossRefPubMed
5.
Meyer A (1918) The mental hygiene movement. CMAJ 8:632–634
6.
Rossi A (1962) Some pre-World War II antecedents of community mental health theory and practice. Ment Hyg 46:78–98PubMed
7.
Abbot SL, White JC (eds) (1864) The boston medical and surgical journal. David Clapp Publisher and Proprietor, Boston, p 364
8.
9.
First International Congress on Mental Hygiene (1930) Am J Public Health 20(4):417
10.
WHO (2004) Prevention of mental disorders: effective interventions and policy options. World Health Organization, Geneva
11.
12.
13.
Hock RS, Kolappa K, Burkey MD, Surkan PJ, Eaton WW (2012) A new resolution for global mental health. The Lancet 379:1367–1368CrossRef
14.
Gustavsson A, Svensson M, Jacobi F et al (2011) Cost of disorders of the brain in Europe 2010. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol J Eur Coll Neuropsychopharmacol 21(10):718–779CrossRef
15.
16.
17.
O’Connell ME, Boat T, Warner K (eds) (2009) Preventing mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders among young people. The National Academies Press, Washington, DC
18.
NIMH (2008) Strategic plan: Envisioning a world in which mental illness are prevented and cured. US Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health, Washington, DC
19.
Saxena S, Funk M, Chisholm D (2013) World health assembly adopts comprehensive mental health action plan 2013–2020. The Lancet 381(9882):1970–1971CrossRef
20.
Fineberg H (2013) The paradox of disease prevention: celebrated in principle, resisted in practice. JAMA 310(1):85–90CrossRefPubMed
21.
Jane-Llopis E, Anderson P, Stewart-Brown S et al (2011) Reducing the silent burden of impaired mental health. J Health Commun 16(Suppl 2):59–74CrossRefPubMed
22.
23.
Abelson R (2013) Lacking rules, insurers balk at paying for intensive psychiatric care. New York Times, Business Section, New York
24.
Angemeyer MC, Matschinger H (2003) The stigma of mental illness: effects of labelling on public attitudes towards people with mental disorder. Acta Psychiatr Scand 108:304–309CrossRef
25.
Munoz RF, Mrazek PJ, Haggerty RJ (1996) Institute of Medicine reports on prevention of mental disorders. Am Psychol 51(11):1116–1122CrossRefPubMed
26.
27.
Gladstone TR, Beardslee WR, O’Connor EE (2011) The prevention of adolescent depression. Psychiatr Clin N Am 34(1):35–52CrossRef
28.
Redshaw M, Hennegan J, Kruske S (2014) Holding the baby: early mother–infant contact after childbirth and outcomes. Midwifery 30(5):e177–e187CrossRefPubMed
29.
Moore ER, Andersen GC, Bergman N, Dowswell T (2012) Early skin-to-skin contact for mothers and their healthy newborn infants. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 16(5):1–112
30.
31.
Mikulicer M, Shaver PR (2007) Attachment bases of psychopathology. In: Mikulincer M, Shaver PR (eds) Attachment in adulthood. Guilford Press, New York
32.
Koenen KC, Rudenstine S, Susser ES, Galea S (eds) (2013) A life course approach to mental disorders. Oxford University Press, UK
33.
Fontein-Kuipers YJ, MNieuwenhuijze MJ, Ausems M, de Vries RLB (2014) Antenatal interventions to reduce maternal distress: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials. BJOG 121(4):389–397CrossRefPubMed
34.
O’Hara MW, McCabe JE (2013) Postpartum depression: current status and future directions. Annu Rev Clin Psychol 9:379–407CrossRefPubMed
35.
Hubner-Liebermann B, Hausner H, Wittman M (2012) Recognizing and treating peripartum depression. Dtsch Arztebl Int 109(24):419–424PubMedCentralPubMed
36.
Horowitz JA, Goodman JH (2005) Identifying and treating postpartum depression. JOGN Nurs 34(2):264–273CrossRef
37.
Walker AM, Johnson R, Banner C et al (2008) Targeted home visiting intervention: the impact on mother–infant relationships. Community Pract 81(3):31–34PubMed
38.
Slade A, Cohen LJ, Sadler LS, Miller M (2009) The psychology and psychopathology of pregnancy: reorganization and transformation. In: Zeanah CH (ed) Handbook of infant and mental health. Guilford Press, New York
39.
40.
Shonkoff JP, Boyce WT, McEwen BS (2009) Neuroscience, molecular biology, and the childhood roots of health disparities. JAMA 301(21):2252–2259CrossRefPubMed
41.
Lai MC, Lombardo MV, Baron-Cohen S (2013) Autism. Lancet S0140–6736(13):61531–61539
42.
Allen-Meares P, Montgomery KL, Kim JS (2013) School-based social work interventions: a cross-national systematic review. Soc Work 58(3):253–262CrossRefPubMed
43.
Wolmer J, Hamiel D, Laor N (2011) Preventing children’s posttraumatic stress after disaster with teacher-based intervention: a controlled study. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 50(4):340–348CrossRefPubMed
44.
Furlong M, McGilloway S, Bywater T, Hutchings J, Smith SM, Donnelly M (2013) Cochrane review: behavioural and cognitive-behavioural group-based parenting programmes for early-onset conduct problems in children aged 3 to 12 years (Review). Evid Based Child Health Cochrane Rev J 8(2):318–692CrossRef
45.
Roberts YH, Huang CY, Crusto CA, Kaufman JS (2014) Health, emergency department use, and early identification of young children exposed to trauma. J Emerg Med 46(5):719–724CrossRefPubMed
46.
Reichow B, Barton EE, Boyd BA, Hume K (2012) Early intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI) for young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Cochrane Database Syst Rev 17:1–62
47.
Brietzke E, Kauer-Sant’anna M, Jackowski A et al (2012) Impact of childhood stress on psychopathology. Rev Bras Psiquiatr 34:480–488CrossRefPubMed
48.
Gibb BE, Butler AC, Beck JS (2003) Child abuse, depression, and anxiety in adult psychiatric outpatients. Depress Anxiety 17:226–228CrossRefPubMed
49.
Heim C, Newport DJ, Mletzko T, Miller AH, Nemeroff CB (2008) The link between childhood taruma and depression: insights from HPA axis studies in humans. Psychoneuroendocrinology 33(6):693–710CrossRefPubMed
50.
Kessler RC, Magee WJ (1993) Childhood adversities and adult depression: basic patterns of association in a US national survey. Psychol Med 23(3):679–690CrossRefPubMed
51.
Cicchetti D (2013) Annual Research Review: resilient functioning in maltreated children—past, present, and future perspectives. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 54(4):402–422CrossRefPubMedCentralPubMed
52.
Kessler RC, Amminger GP, Aguilar-Gaxiola S, Alonso J, Lee S, Ustun TB (2007) Age of onset of mental disorders: a review of the recent literature. Curr Opin Psychiatry 20(4):359–364CrossRefPubMedCentralPubMed
53.
Blanco C, Okuda M, Wright C et al (2008) Mental health of college students and their non-college-attending peers. Arch Gen Psychiatry 65(12):1429–1437CrossRefPubMedCentralPubMed
54.
Copeland J, Rooke S, Swift W (2013) Changes in cannabis use among young people: impact on mental health. Curr Opin Psychiatr 26(4):325–329CrossRef
55.
Brenner R, Madhusoodanan S (2010) Primary prevention in psychiatry—adult populations. Ann Clin Psychiatry 22(4):239–248PubMed
56.
Hansen WB, Graham JW (1991) Preventing alcohol, marijuana, and cigarette use among adolescents: peer pressure resistance training versus conservative norms. Prev Med 20:414–430CrossRefPubMed
57.
O’Dea JA, Abraham S (2000) Improving the body image, eating attitudes, and behaviors of young male and female adolescents: a new educational approach that focuses on self-esteem. Int J Eat Disord 28(1):43–57CrossRefPubMed
58.
Possel P, Baldus C, Horn AB, Groen G, Hautzinger M (2005) Influence of general self-efficacy on the effects of a school-based universal primary prevention program of depressive symptoms in adolescents: a randomized and controlled follow-up study. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 46(9):982–994CrossRefPubMed
59.
Durlak JA, Wells AM (1998) Evaluation of indicated preventive intervention (secondary prevention) mental health programs for children and adolescents. Am J Community Psychol 26(5):775–802CrossRefPubMed
60.
Asarnow JR, Jaycox LH, Duan N et al (2005) Effectiveness of a quality improvement intervention for adolescent depression in primary care clinics: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA 293(3):311–319CrossRefPubMed
61.
62.
Burke KC, Burke JD, Regier DA, Rae DS (1990) Age at onset of selected mental disorders in five community populations. Arch Gen Psychiatry 47:511–518CrossRefPubMed
63.
64.
Fiske A, Wetherell JL, Gatz M (2009) Depression in older adults. Ann Rev Clin Psychol 5:363–389CrossRef
65.
Ybarra ML, Eaton WW (2005) Internet-based mental health interventions. Ment Health Serv Res 7(2):75–87CrossRefPubMed
66.
Bonanno GA, Galea S, Bucciarelli A, Vlahov D (2007) What predicts psychological resilience after disaster? The role of demographics, resources, and life stress. J Consult Clin Psychol 75(5):671–682CrossRefPubMed
67.
WHO (2008) The global burden of disease: 2004 update. Geneva
68.
Pomaki G, Franche RL, Murray E, Khushrushahi N, Lampinen TM (2012) Workplace-based work disability prevention interventions for workers with common mental health conditions: a review of the literature. J Occup Rehabil 22(2):182–195CrossRefPubMed
69.
Huguelet P, Koellner V, Boulguy S et al (2012) Study of the impact of an assertive community program on the families of patients with severe mental disorders. L’Encephale 38(3):201–210CrossRefPubMed
70.
Young SM, Barrett B, Engelhardt MA, Moore KA (2014) Six-month outcomes of an integrated assertive community treatment team serving adults with complex behavioral health and housing needs. Community Ment Health J 50(4):474–479CrossRefPubMed
71.
Drukker M, Visser E, Sytema S, van Os J (2013) Flexible assertive community treatment, severity of symptoms and psychiatric health service use, a real life observational study. Clin Prac Epidemiol Ment Health 9:202–209CrossRef
72.
Feizi A, Najmi B, Salesi A, Chorami M, Hoveidafar R (2014) Parenting stress among mothers of children with different physical, mental, and psychological problems. J Res Med Sci 19(2):145–152PubMedCentralPubMed
73.
Estes A, Olson E, Sullivan K et al (2013) Parenting-related stress and psychological distress in months of toddlers with autism spectrum disorders. Brain Dev 35(2):133–138CrossRefPubMedCentralPubMed
74.
Nseir S, Larkey LK (2013) Interventions for spousal bereavement in the older adult: an evidence review. Death Stud 37(6):495–512CrossRefPubMed
75.
Moussavi S, Chatterji S, Verdes E, Tandon A, Patel V, Ustun B (2007) Depression, chronic diseases, and decrements in health: results from the World Health Surveys. The Lancet 370(9590):8–14CrossRef
76.
Bruce ML, Ten Have TR, Reynolds CF et al (2004) Reducing suicidal ideation and depressive symptoms in depressed older primary care patients: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA 291:1081–1091CrossRefPubMed
Metadata
Title
Preventing brain disorders: a framework for action
Authors
Sasha Rudenstine
Sandro Galea
Publication date
01-05-2015
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology / Issue 5/2015
Print ISSN: 0933-7954
Electronic ISSN: 1433-9285
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-015-1007-4

Other articles of this Issue 5/2015

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 5/2015 Go to the issue

Original Paper

Trends in the dispensation of antidepressant drugs over the past decade (2000–2010) in Andalusia, Spain

Original Paper

Perceived barriers to mental health treatment among individuals with a past-year disorder onset: findings from a Canadian Population Health Survey

Original Paper

Asian Americans and European Americans’ stigma levels in response to biological and social explanations of depression

Original Paper

Measuring the economic costs of discrimination experienced by people with mental health problems: development of the Costs of Discrimination Assessment (CODA)

Original Paper

Consumers’ questions about antipsychotic medication: revealing safety concerns and the silent voices of young men

Original Paper

Making assessment locally relevant: measuring functioning for maternal depression in Khayelitsha, Cape Town