This introductory chapter provides a discussion about the need for prevention. As justification for prevention, the chapter highlights the costs of social problems discussed in the book, including academic problems, violence in schools, child maltreatment, HIV/AIDS, and substance abuse.
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Wodarski, J. S. (2019). Social problems: A cost-effective psychosocial prevention paradigm. In Empirically Based Interventions Targeting Social Problems (pp. 1–17). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28487-9_1
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