Insel P M
Community Ment Health J. 1980 Spring;16(1):62-78. doi: 10.1007/BF00780667.
This paper focuses on the contributions the field of social ecology can make to understanding and assessing the social environment, with special reference to the prevention of mental illness. Intervention in the social environment for mental illness prevention calls for an adequate concept of the environmental effects of mental health; a classification method for measuring and comparing different environments; a knowledge of the relationships between environmental variables and behavioral or psychological outcomes; and a way of determining the most effective interventions.
本文着重探讨社会生态学领域在理解和评估社会环境方面所能做出的贡献，尤其涉及到预防精神疾病。针对预防精神疾病对社会环境进行干预，需要有一个关于心理健康的环境影响的适当概念；一种用于测量和比较不同环境的分类方法；了解环境变量与行为或心理结果之间的关系；以及一种确定最有效干预措施的方法。
