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).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Haworth Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Improve quality of life for patients with HIV/AIDS! Practice Issues in HIV/AIDS Services: Empowerment-Based Models and Program Applications provides a sound framework of intervention practices for case managers and care coordinators to help HIV/AIDS patients live longer and healthier lives. This book focuses on client-based care that addresses the social and psychological needs of the patient as well as his or her physical and medical requirements. Filled with concrete information and recommendations from practitioners and researchers, this instructive text will help increase the effe

Contents:

Front Cover; Practice Issuesin HIV/AIDS Services: Empowerment-Based Models and Program Applications; Copyright Page; Contents; About the Editors; Contributors; Foreword: Gwendolyn Spencer Prater; Chapter 1. A Generalist Practice Model in HIV/AIDS Services: An Empowerment Perspective: Ronald J. Mancoske,and James Donald Smith; The Ongoing Challenges of HIV/AIDS; Generalist Practice Model; The Relationship Process: Engaging Client Systems in Services; The Data-Gathering Process; Assessment; Interventions; Evaluation of Services; The Termination Process; Conclusion

Chapter 2. Case Management: DeAnn GruberIntroduction; Case Management Models; Research of Case Management; Emerging Issues in the Field; Service Implications; Conclusion; Chapter 3. The Transtheoretical Model of Behavior and Injection Drug Use: San Patten; Introduction; Risk Reduction Among IDUs; The Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change; Practitioners' Applications of the TTM; Current and Future Research of the TTM with IDUs; Conclusion

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 and Timothy Purington and Karen Davis and Faith Ferguson and Lena LundgrenIntroduction; The Harm Reduction Philosophy; Needle Exchange Programs; Massachusetts State Treatment Needs AssessmentProgram; Practice Implications; Conclusion; Chapter 5. HIV Prevention Models with Mexican Migrant Farmworkers: Kurt C.Organista; Introduction

HIV/AIDS, Mexican Farmworkers, and AgriculturalLabor in the United StatesResearch-Informed Understanding of HIV Risk; HIV Risk Factors in Mexican Migrant Laborers; HIV/AIDS-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs,and Behaviors; Contextualizing HIV Risk; Conceptual Model of Risk; Implications for HIV Prevention and Treatment Services:State of the Art and Beyond; Long-Term Recommendations: Expanding Resources,Infrastructure, and Labor Reform; Chapter 6. A Family Intervention Model for Engaging Hidden At-Risk African Americans in HIV Prevention Programs: Larry D. Icard and Nushina Siddiqui

IntroductionAfrican Americans and HIV; African Americans As Hidden Populations; Family-Focused Interventions and Hidden Populations; Factors to Consider; Conclusion; Chapter 7. HIV/AIDS Among African Americans in the Mississippi/Louisiana Delta Region: A Macro-Practice Empowerment Model: Peggy Pittman-Munke and Vincent J. Venturini; Statement of the Problem; African Americans and the Risk of HIV/AIDS; HIV/AIDS in Rural America; Proposed Practice Model for Culturally Sensitive Practicewith African Americans

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-429-23715-4

1-136-76636-7

1-283-60796-4

1-136-76637-5

9786613920416

0-203-82267-6

9780429237157

OCLC:

764571594