Understanding and Preventing HIV Risk Behavior: Safer Sex and Drug Use / Edition 1

by Stuart Oskamp, Stacy D. Thompson

Overview

In almost 20 years of tackling the AIDS epidemic, one theme has consistently emerged: the solution to stopping the spread of the AIDS virus, HIV, rests with individual behaviour. The critical question is: how can people be influenced to change risk behaviours related to sexual activity and drug use?

This volume brings together some of the most respected researchers in the area of reducing the transmission of HIV. Their work represents the state-of-the-art research on safer sex and drug use. The issues discussed include: adolescents at risk from AIDS; denial, motivation and behaviour; and special populations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803974258
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/23/1996
Series:	Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology , #9
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	291
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.66(d)

About the Author

Stuart Oskamp (Ph.D., Stanford University) has focused his research interests in the areas of attitudes and attitude change, applied social psychology, behavioral aspects of energy and resource conservation, and social issues and public policy. His books include Attitudes and Opinions and Applied Social Psychology. He has been elected a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) Council of Representatives and President of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) and of the APA Division of Population and Environmental Psychology. He has also served as editor of the Journal of Social Issues and of the Applied Social Psychology Annual. Since 1984 he has organized the Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology and co-edited the resulting annual volume published for many years by Sage Publications and now published by Erlbaum.

Table of Contents

Understanding and Preventing HIV Risk Behavior - Suzanne C Thompson and Stuart Oskamp
An Overview
PART ONE: GENERAL PRINCIPLES
Adolescents at Risk for AIDS - Ralph J Di Clemente
AIDS Epidemiology, and Prevalence and Incidence of HIV
Adolescent Contraceptive Behavior - Nancy E Adler and Cynthia Rosengard
Raging Hormones or Rational Decision-Making?
Denial and the AIDS Crisis - Kathryn A Morris and William B Swann Jr
On Wishing Away the Threat of AIDS
The Role of Attraction in Partner Assessments and Heterosexual Risk for HIV - Leslie F Clark et al
The Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model of AIDS Risk Behavior Change - Jeffrey D Fisher and William A Fisher
Empirical Support and Application
PART TWO: SPECIAL POPULATIONS
Social Psychological Influences on HIV Risk Behavior among African-American Youth - John B Jemmott III
Cultural Issues in HIV Prevention for Latinos - Barbara Van Oss Marín
Should We Try to Change Gender Roles?
Using a Theory-Based Community Intervention To Reduce AIDS Risk Behaviors - Martin Fishbein et al
The CDC's AIDS Community Demonstration Projects
HIV Risk Interventions for Active Drug Users - Fen Rhodes and C Kevin Malotte
Experience and Prospects
Educational Policy, Adolescent Knowledge of HIV Risk, and Sexual Behavior in Zimbabwe and the United States - Michelle H Wierson and Jennifer L Bright

Editorial Reviews

A collection of recent behavioral research aimed at reducing the transmission of HIV. Presents current HIV and AIDS epidemiological findings, describes the information-motivation-behavioral skills model of risk behavior, and offers empirical analysis of contraceptive decision making, denial processes, and the role of attraction in heterosexual behavior. Examines research with specific populations including Latinos, blacks, drug users, and adolescents. Paper edition (unseen), $21.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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