Primary prevention Actually preventing the thing Secondary Prevention early identification and treatment Tertiary prevention Avoiding complications Norms are considered The right patterns of behavior for a society Crisis is a time limited response lasting 4 to 6 weeks What initiates a crisis A crisis is initiated by internal or external demands that are perceived as a threat to a persons physical or emotional functioning. Precipitating event is stressful and unusual or rare. maturational crisis Describes unfavorable person-environmental relationships that relate to maturational events such as leaving home for the first time, completing school or accepting the responsibility of adulthood. Situational Crisis Occurs whenever a specific stressful event threatens a person's biopsychosocial integrity and results in some degree of psychological disequilibrium Aventitious Cirsis Initiated by an unexpected unusual events that can affect an individual or a multitude of people. National and natural disasters. During an adventitious crisis (e.g., flood, hurricane, forest fire) that affects the well-being of many people, the interventions of the PMH-APRN will be a part of the community's efforts to respond to the event. Goal for people experiencing crisis