HIV affected and vulnerable youth : prevention issues and approaches / Susan Taylor-Brown, Alejandro Garcia, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garcia, Alejandro.

Taylor-Brown, Susan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease) in adolescence--Prevention.

AIDS (Disease) in adolescence.

HIV infections--Prevention.

HIV infections.

Children of AIDS patients--Services for.

Children of AIDS patients.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

HIV Affected and Vulnerable Youth: Prevention Issues and Approaches provides suggestions for support of vulnerable youth who must face chronic disease or death, poverty, drug abuse, and racism, as well as the tribulations that accompany adolescence. Social workers, case managers, psychologists, and nurses who work with HIV-affected and vulnerable youth and their families will find unique recommendations on how to assist these individuals in resisting risky behaviors. This unique collection of research studies expands on the current knowledge while informing us of how much more there

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; About the Editors; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; My Brother; The Courage of a Woman; When I Think of AIDS; Longitudinal Study of Psychological Distress Symptoms in HIV-infected, School-Aged Children; A Troubled Present, an Uncertain Future: Well Adolescents in Families with AIDS; The Impact of Targeted Prevention Programs for Adolescents at High Risk for HIV Transmission; Minors' Rights and HIV: Prevention, Testing and Treatment

In the Best Interest of the Child: Maintaining Family Integrity Among HIV-Positive Mothers, Children, and AdolescentsMothers with AIDS: Coping, Support, and Ability to Plan for Their Children; Index

Notes:

". has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of HIV/AIDS prevention & education for adolescents & children, Volume 3, Numbers 1/2 1999."

First published 1999 by the Haworth Press.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7890-0825-4

1-317-82633-7

1-315-82159-1

1-317-82634-5

9781315821597

OCLC:

874153113