Understanding and preventing HIV risk behavior : safer sex and drug use /

Bringing together some of the most active and respected researchers in the field, this volume presents a state-of-the-art, integrated examination of behavioral research aimed at reducing the transmission of HIV. In almost 20 years of battling the AIDS epidemic, one theme has consistently emerged: Th...

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Corporate Author: Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology
Other Authors: Oskamp, Stuart., Thompson, Suzanne Clare, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c1996.
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Table of Contents:
  • Understanding and preventing HIV risk behavior: an overview / Suzanne C. Thompson and Stuart Oskamp
  • Adolescents at risk for AIDS: AIDS epidemiology, and prevalence and incidence of HIV / Ralph J. DiClemente
  • Adolescent contraceptive behavior: raging hormones or rational decision making? / Nancy E. Adler and Cynthia Rosengard
  • Denial and the AIDS crisis: on wishing away the threat of AIDS / Kathryn A. Morris and William B. Swann
  • The role of attraction in partner assessments and heterosexual risk for HIV / Leslie F. Clark, Kim S. Miller, Janet S. Harrison, Kelly L. Kay, and Janet Moore
  • The information-motivation-behavioral skills model of AIDS risk behavior change: empirical support and application / Jeffrey D. Fisher and William A. Fisher
  • Social psychological influences on HIV risk behavior among African American youth / John B. Jemmott
  • Cultural issues in HIV prevention for Latinos: should we try to change gender roles? / Barbara VanOss Marín
  • Using a theory-based community intervention to reduce AIDS risk behaviors: the CDC's AIDS community demonstration projects / Martin Fishbein, Carolyn Guenther-Grey, Wayne D. Johnson, Richard J. Wolitski, Alfred McAlister, Cornelis A. Rietmeijer, Kevin O'Reilly, and The AIDS Community Demonstration Projects
  • HIV risk interventions for active drug users: experience and prospects / Fen Rhodes and C. Kevin Malotte
  • Educational policy, adolescent knowledge of HIV risk, and sexual behavior in Zimbabwe and the United States / Michelle H. Wierson and Jennifer L. Bright.