Blame is thought to be equally shared between the prevention and intervention fields.
On the one hand, there has never been any great effort on the part of the prevention field to make clear the linkage between prevention and intervention efforts. Fortunately, this is a situation that is rapidly changing. Further, professional ethics require that the clear theoretical and practical link between prevention and intervention efforts should always be discussed within a dialogue that simultaneously recognizes their distinctly different characteristics. Likewise, intervention-based work should never be done with the pretense that someone is participating in a prevention program. At the sane time, traditional psychotherapeutic approaches cannot make a dent in the mental health problems of the nation.