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Preventing AIDS

Theories and Methods of Behavioral Interventions

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  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. Ralph J. DiClemente

    1. School of Public Health, Department of Health Behavior and School of Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, and Center for AIDS Research, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA

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  2. John L. Peterson

    1. Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

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Part of the book series: Aids Prevention and Mental Health (APMH)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Changing HIV/AIDS Risk Behaviors

    • Ralph J. DiClemente, John L. Peterson
    Pages 1-4

  3. The Health Belief Model and HIV Risk Behavior Change

    • Irwin M. Rosenstock, Victor J. Strecher, Marshall H. Becker
    Pages 5-24

  4. Social Cognitive Theory and Exercise of Control over HIV Infection

    • Albert Bandura
    Pages 25-59

  5. Using Information to Change Sexually Transmitted Disease-Related Behaviors

    • Martin Fishbein, Susan E. Middlestadt, Penelope J. Hitchcock
    Pages 61-78

  6. Diffusion Theory and HIV Risk Behavior Change

    • James W. Dearing, Gary Meyer, Everett M. Rogers
    Pages 79-93

  7. Social Models for Changing Health-Relevant Behavior

    • Samuel R. Friedman, Don C. Des Jarlais, Thomas P. Ward
    Pages 95-116

  8. School-Based Interventions to Prevent Unprotected Sex and HIV among Adolescents

    • Douglas Kirby, Ralph J. DiClemente
    Pages 117-139

  9. Interventions for Adolescents in Community Settings

    • John B. Jemmott III, Loretta Sweet Jemmott
    Pages 141-174

  10. Preventing HIV among Runaways: Victims and Victimization

    • Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, Julie Feldman, Margaret Rosario, Edward Dunne
    Pages 175-188

  11. Behavioral Interventions for In-Treatment Injection Drug Users

    • Laurie Roehrich, Tamara L. Wall, James L. Sorensen
    Pages 189-208

  12. HIV/AIDS Prevention for Drug Users in Natural Settings

    • John K. Watters, Joseph Guydish
    Pages 209-225

  13. Interventions for Sexual Partners of HIV-Infected or High-Risk Individuals

    • Nancy S. Padian, Janneke H. H. M. van de Wijgert, Thomas R. O’Brien
    Pages 227-242

  14. Interventions for Sexually Active, Heterosexual Women in the United States

    • Janet S. Moore, Janet S. Harrison, Lynda S. Doll
    Pages 243-265

  15. HIV Prevention for Gay and Bisexual Men in Metropolitan Cities

    • Robert B. Hays, John L. Peterson
    Pages 267-296

  16. HIV Prevention among Gay and Bisexual Men in Small Cities

    • Jeffrey A. Kelly
    Pages 297-317

  17. Lessons Learned from Behavioral Interventions

    • John L. Peterson, Ralph J. DiClemente
    Pages 319-322

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 323-336
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Public health has a legacy of neglect regarding social and behavioral research. Too often, prompted by technical and scientific progress, we have ignored­ even marginalized-the vital "human element" in health thinking and prac­ tice. Thus, for example, while family planning programs focused on providing a choice among safe and effective contraceptive methods (a supremely worthy goal), the central issue of sexuality and sexual behavior was generally neglected. Similarly, the enormous and important efforts to develop rapid and reliable diagnostic and treatment methods for sexually transmitted diseases helped divert attention away from the crucial issues of sexual practice. In short, we seem to have difficulty addressing the fundamental behaviors-including sex, drug taking and other intoxications, and violence-that are central to the major causes of preventable morbidity, disability, and premature mortality in the world today. Our collective reluctance to examine and understand ourselves is also expressed in the oft-repeated pipedream that scientific progress will "take care of" the HIV / AIDS pandemic by delivering a preventive vaccine, an effective cure, or both. Yet even a cursory glance at the relationship between scientific/ technical progress and health shows that meeting the scientific challenges is only one step toward effective application of the vaccine or drug. It is typical, not atypical, that hepatitis B vaccine is only now becoming relatively freely available to large populations in the developing world, more than a decade after the vaccine's licensure.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Public Health, Department of Health Behavior and School of Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, and Center for AIDS Research, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA

    Ralph J. DiClemente

  • Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

    John L. Peterson

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