Mental illness is a very serious that is to be cured and also to be prevented. Mental illness has many adverse like killing oneself for no cause or threatening other people by their behavior.
Thus there is a high need to prevent the mental illness and can be prevented in three categories
• Universal interventions
• Selective interventions
• Indicated interventions
Universal interventions deal with the alternation of conditions that lead to mental problems and also foster situations that can incorporate positive thinking in them.
Selective interventions as the name indicates it deals with a selective group of people like adults and ethnic minorities. As deals with small group of people it has better results than the universal interventions.
An indicative intervention identifies the maladaptive behavior at an early stage in a family and provides treatment. Thus it helps in the early stage prevention of mental illness.