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

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Imprint:Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c1996.
Description:285 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2607039
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Other authors / contributors:Oskamp, Stuart.
Thompson, Suzanne Clare, 1944-
Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology (12th : 1995 : Claremont, Calif.)
ISBN:0803974248 (acid-free paper)
0803974256 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Notes:Based on papers from the 12th Annual Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Understanding and Preventing HIV Risk Behavior
  • An Overview
  • Part 1. General Principles
  • Adolescents at Risk for AIDS
  • AIDS Epidemiology, and Prevalence and Incidence of HIV
  • Adolescent Contraceptive Behavior
  • Raging Hormones or Rational Decision-Making?
  • Denial and the AIDS Crisis
  • On Wishing Away the Threat of AIDS
  • The Role of Attraction in Partner Assessments and Heterosexual Risk for HIV
  • The Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model of AIDS Risk Behavior Change
  • Empirical Support and Application
  • Part 2. Special Populations
  • Social Psychological Influences on HIV Risk Behavior among African-American Youth
  • Cultural Issues in HIV Prevention for Latinos
  • Should We Try to Change Gender Roles?
  • Using a Theory-Based Community Intervention To Reduce AIDS Risk Behaviors
  • The CDC's AIDS Community Demonstration Projects
  • HIV Risk Interventions for Active Drug Users
  • Experience and Prospects
  • Educational Policy, Adolescent Knowledge of HIV Risk, and Sexual Behavior in Zimbabwe and the United States