Research Catalog

Title

Understanding and preventing HIV risk behavior : safer sex and drug use / Stuart Oskamp, Suzanne C. Thompson, editors.

Publication

Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c1996.

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Additional Authors

• Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology (12th : 1995 : Claremont, Calif.)
• Oskamp, Stuart.
• Thompson, Suzanne Clare, 1944-

Description

285 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• 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: The solution to stopping the spread of the AIDS virus rests with individual behavior.
• This timely volume also examines research with specific populations, including African American youths, Latinos, both gay and straight residents of HIV-impacted communities, active drug users, and adolescents in countries that have different AIDS risk levels and public health policies.
• Understanding and Preventing HIV Risk Behavior grapples with the critical question of how to influence people to change high-risk behaviors, particularly in sexual activity and drug use. The contributors take an in-depth look at the most current HIV and AIDS epidemiological findings; the information-motivation-behavioral skills model of risk behavior; and empirical analyses of contraceptive decision making, denial processes, and the role of attraction in heterosexual behavior.

Subject

• AIDS (Disease) > Prevention > Congresses
• AIDS (Disease) in adolescence > Prevention > Congresses
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• Adolescent
• Health Behavior
• Health behavior

Genre/Form

Congress.

Note

• Based on papers from the 12th Annual Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology, 1995.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• 1. Understanding and Preventing HIV Risk Behavior: An Overview / Suzanne C. Thompson and Stuart Oskamp -- 2. Adolescents at Risk for AIDS: AIDS Epidemiology, and Prevalence and Incidence of HIV / Ralph J. DiClemente -- 3. Adolescent Contraceptive Behavior: Raging Hormones or Rational Decision Making? / Nancy E. Adler and Cynthia Rosengard -- 4. Denial and the AIDS Crisis: On Wishing Away the Threat of AIDS / Kathryn A. Morris and William B. Swann, Jr. -- 5. 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 -- 6. The Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model of AIDS Risk Behavior Change: Empirical Support and Application / Jeffrey D. Fisher and William A. Fisher -- 7. Social Psychological Influences on HIV Risk Behavior Among African American Youth / John B. Jemmott III --
• 8. Cultural Issues in HIV Prevention for Latinos: Should We Try to Change Gender Roles? / Barbara VanOss Marin -- 9. 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 and Kevin O'Reilly / Aids Community Demonstration Projects -- 10. HIV Risk Interventions for Active Drug Users: Experience and Prospects / Fen Rhodes and C. Kevin Malotte -- 11. Educational Policy, Adolescent Knowledge of HIV Risk, and Sexual Behavior in Zimbabwe and the United States / Michelle H. Wierson and Jennifer L. Bright.

ISBN

• 0803974248 (acid-free paper)
• 0803974256 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

96010121

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries