Primary prevention is defined as those efforts undertaken to prevent the development of psychosocial problems. These efforts include eliminating or modifying contributing risk factors that are amenable to intervention. This paper proposes a primary prevention as an approach to helping newly arrived Korean immigrants in the United States successfully adapt to their new environment It provides an overview of Korean immigrants in the United States and describes an ethnic church-based primary prevention training model. Culture learning, provision of information about community resources, and stress inoculation training are outlined as three components of the training model. Issues related to the implementation of the training model are discussed. © 1995 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.

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immigrant training Review psychosocial disorder United States primary health care health education Korea