Tertiary intervention: Conceptual framework for school counselor education and practice

Abstract

Although the concepts of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention have been prevalent in the literature of the helping professions, the potential for tertiary intervention within the educational system is largely unrealized. The purpose of the article is to clarify this concept, to delineate some of the areas in which tertiary prevention can be implemented by school counselors, and to suggest how it may be incorporated in school counselor education.