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HIV Treatment Adherence - Challenges for Social Services (Hardcover)
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HIV Treatment Adherence - Challenges for Social Services (Hardcover)
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Learn the latest social service interventions to promote HIV
medication adherence Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART)
can significantly improve the health outcomes of people living with
HIV. Still, benefits rely on the steady adherence to the medication
regimen as prescribed. Social Work and HIV: Challenges to Treatment
Adherence is a practice-friendly resource with the latest HIV
medication client adherence strategies and guidelines. This
valuable book provides the tools for assessment of client
adherence, and includes approaches and helpful guidelines to
develop specialized counseling, social services, and provider
training programs. Treatment plans for HIV can be complicated and
client adherence can hinge on several diverse factors. Social Work
and HIV: Challenges to Treatment Adherence explains in detail how
professionals can help individuals with HIV to stick to the
prescribed medication plan. This book focuses on the daunting
psychosocial, spiritual, and biomedical challenges that social
workers, social service professionals, and healthcare providers
often encounter and provides strategies to effectively address
these issues. Innovations in adherence counseling and provider
training programs are explored. Practitioners will learn
psychosocial interventions that are empirically based, with
predictors of adherence closely examined on how they may vary by
gender, socioeconomic, and ethnocultural diversity. Co-occurring
health and behavioral conditions, such as substance use, are
considered in detail. Chapters are extensively referenced and
several have tables and figures to clearly present data. Topics in
Social Work and HIV: Challenges to Treatment Adherence include: key
themes within current treatment adherence research from the 2006
NIMH/IAPAC International Conference on HIV Treatment Adherence
reviews of studies of psychosocial predictors of HAART among HIV
positive clients research on the impact of support from partners,
family, and health care providers has on medication adherence
factors that predict medication adherence among HIV positive adults
research on the differential effects of social and religious
support and background variables on treatment adherence
interventions to improve HAART adherence in methadone clinics
specialized adherence counselors and their impact on adherence
training to increase counselor knowledge of HIV medications,
adherence strategies, and improved counseling skills studies on the
prevalence of continued drug use and everyday adherence decision
making Social Work and HIV: Challenges to Treatment Adherence is a
valuable resource for social workers; substance abuse counselors;
social service and other health care providers; researchers;
educators; and policy advocates. The book is also a relevant
supplemental text for graduate courses in counseling; multi-systems
interventions; community health; social development practice;
research methods; and program evaluation as offered through
departments of social work, public health, nursing, health
psychology, community medicine, and interdisciplinary health
professional training programs.
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