Practice issues in HIV/AIDS services : empowerment-based models and program applications / Ronald J. Mancoske, James Donald Smith, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mancoske, Ronald J.

Smith, James Donald.

Series:

Haworth psychosocial issues of HIV/AIDS

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

HIV-positive persons--Services for.

HIV-positive persons.

AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Services for.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--Patients.

Physical Description:

xx, 223 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Haworth Press, [2004]

Contents:

Chapter 1. A Generalist Practice Model in HIV/AIDS Services: An Empowerment Perspective / Ronald J. Mancoske, James Donald Smith 1

The Ongoing Challenges of HIV/AIDS 1

Generalist Practice Model 19

The Relationship Process: Engaging Client Systems in Services 22

The Data-Gathering Process 28

Assessment 36

Interventions 40

Evaluation of Services 46

The Termination Process 50

Chapter 2. Case Management / DeAnn Gruber 67

Case Management Models 67

Research of Case Management 73

Emerging Issues in the Field 77

Service Implications 78

Chapter 3. The Transtheoretical Model of Behavior and Injection Drug Use / San Patten 85

Risk Reduction Among IDUs 87

The Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change 89

Practitioners' Applications of the TTM 96

Current and Future Research of the TTM with IDUs 101

Chapter 4. Utilization of Needle Exchange Programs and Substance Abuse Treatment Services by Injection Drug Users: Social Work Practice Implications of a Harm Reduction Model / Therese Fitzgerald, Timothy Purington, Karen Davis, Faith Ferguson, Lena Lundgren 107

The Harm Reduction Philosophy 110

Needle Exchange Programs 113

Massachusetts State Treatment Needs Assessment Program 116

Practice Implications 121

Chapter 5. HIV Prevention Models with Mexican Migrant Farmworkers / Kurt C. Organista 127

HIV/AIDS, Mexican Farmworkers, and Agricultural Labor in the United States 128

Research-Informed Understanding of HIV Risk 134

HIV Risk Factors in Mexican Migrant Laborers 135

HIV/AIDS-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors 139

Contextualizing HIV Risk 143

Conceptual Model of Risk 144

Implications for HIV Prevention and Treatment Services: State of the Art and Beyond 147

Long-Term Recommendations: Expanding Resources, Infrastructure, and Labor Reform 154

Chapter 6. A Family Intervention Model for Engaging Hidden At-Risk African Americans in HIV Prevention Programs / Larry D. Icard, Nushina Siddiqui 161

African Americans and HIV 162

African Americans As Hidden Populations 164

Family-Focused Interventions and Hidden Populations 166

Factors to Consider 170

Chapter 7. HIV/AIDS Among African Americans in the Mississippi/Louisiana Delta Region: A Macro-Practice Empowerment Model / Peggy Pittman-Munke, Vincent J. Venturini 177

Statement of the Problem 177

African Americans and the Risk of HIV/AIDS 180

HIV/AIDS in Rural America 181

Proposed Practice Model for Culturally Sensitive Practice with African Americans 184

Chapter 8. Cultural Influences on HIV/AIDS Prevention: Louisiana African-American Women / Sybil G. Schroeder 197

HIV/AIDS Statistical Overview 198

Louisiana African-American Women 201

Ethnic Epistemology 205

Culture in Prevention Efforts 207.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0789023016

0789023024

OCLC:

53096758