The AIDS Health Crisis
Psychological and Social Interventions
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Alternatives to Aversive Procedures with Animals in the Psychology Teaching Setting
Every college undergraduate learns in his or her first introductory course that the aims of scientific psychology are understanding, explaining, and predicting behavior. How students are taught about behavior ...
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Cognitive problem-solving training to improve the child-care judgment of child neglectful parents
Child neglect, the failure to adequately meet a youngster's care needs, is the most frequent form of child maltreatment reported to welfare authorities. However, there have been few empirical reports of treatm.....
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Epilogue
The primary focus of this book has been interventions that can prove useful in preventing AIDS and assisting persons already affected by the syndrome. The development of effective prevention and service delive...
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Psychosocial Consequences of HIV Seropositivity
Most literature on acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) has focused on persons with clinical-criterion, or frank, AIDS. Given the lethality of an AIDS diagnosis, the recency of the disease, and the expon...
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Psychological Consequences of AIDS and AIDS-Related Complex
The strongest predictor of develo** an HIV-related disease is the amount of time that has elapsed since viral exposure (Moss et al., 1987). Even if HIV transmission rates could be stopped immediately or a vacci...
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Behavioral Interventions at a Community Level
Individual and small group counseling efforts are appropriate and necessary when assisting help-seeking clients who are at risk for AIDS. However, in spite of the media attention that AIDS receives and the fea...
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Psychosocial Interventions for HIV-Seropositive Persons
Asymptomatic but HIV-seropositive persons are the largest group of individuals affected by AIDS. Some HIV-infected persons may live for the rest of their lives without develo** physical symptoms but remain c...
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Psychosocial Care Needs of Persons with AIDS
Persons diagnosed with frank AIDS are not a uniform group and do not have uniform needs. Some AIDS patients are first seen in the late stages of their illnesses when death is imminent. Others are seen much ear...
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Medical Aspects of AIDS
In the spring of 1981, investigators at the UCLA Medical Center recorded five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, a virulent form of pneumonia uncommon in the United States (Centers for Disease Control, 1981...
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Risk-Reduction Counseling for Individuals and Groups
Individuals are not at risk for AIDS because of who they are. Gay men do not become exposed to HIV infection because they are homosexual, but rather only if they engage in specific high-risk sexual activities or ...
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Effective Help-Providing
AIDS is a unique illness, the most frightening and serious of the sexually transmitted diseases. Since it appeared, AIDS has eclipsed much of the attention once given to such treatable “traditional” sexually t...
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Transmission and Risk Factors for AIDS
As we discussed in Chapter 1, HIV transmission occurs when the virus from an infected individual’s body fluids, primarily blood or semen, gains entry to the bloodstream of another person. Among some AIDS risk ...
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HIV Prevention among Gay and Bisexual Men in Small Cities
One consequence of the emergence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic over a decade ago among homosexually active men in the largest American cities is that most behavioral research on acquired i...
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Behavioral medicine interventions can improve the quality-of-life and health of persons with HIV disease
Interventions to enhance the quality-of-life and health of persons with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease are becoming increasingly important as the number of people with HIV increases and as medical ...
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Priming Effects of HIV Risk Assessments on Related Perceptions and Behavior: An Experimental Field Study
HIV-AIDS prevention research requires assessment administration formats that do not enhance response bias or risk sensitization. In the present study, reactivity of self-reported sexual history measures used i...
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Cost-Effectiveness of an HIV/AIDS Prevention Intervention for Gay Men
The present study sought to determine the cost per discounted quality-adjusted-life-year (QALY) saved by a small group workshop-format, cognitive-behavioral HIV-prevention intervention for gay men. The methodo...
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Patterns, Predictors and Gender Differences in HIV Risk Among Severely Mentally Ill Men and Women
A number of studies have established high human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seroprevalence among severely mentally ill men and women living in large urban areas. Much less research has characterized the patte...
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Predictors of Continued High-Risk Sexual Behavior in a Community Sample of Persons Living with HIV/AIDS
Most HIV prevention research has focused on persons who are HIV-seronegative. However, some persons aware of their HIV infection may continue to engage in high-risk sexual behavior patterns that place their se...
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Role Play Assessments of Sexual Assertiveness Skills: Relationships with HIV/AIDS Sexual Risk Behavior Practices
Conceptual formulations of HIV risk reduction and many HIV prevention interventions reported in the literature emphasize the role of sexual assertiveness, negotiation, and communication skills as key elements ...
