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Getting Started: Basic Skills for Effective Social Work with People with HIV and AIDS

Michael Shernoff, ACSW

1998

In: HIV and Social Work: A Practitioner's Guide
David M. Aronstein and Bruce J. Thompson, Editors
©1998 The Haworth Press, Binghamton, N.Y.

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Contents

Getting Started: Basic Skills for Effective Social Work with People with HIV and AIDS

  1. Why Do This? Statement of the Problem/Issues

  2. AIDS Work Is the Cutting Edge of Contemporary Practice

  3. Assessing Clients' Risks of Exposure to HIV

  4. Examples of How the Issue May Present

  5. AIDS Within Heterosexual Marriage

  6. AIDS Prevention: Drug Use

  7. Sexual Practices

  8. HIV Risk Reduction and Social Work Practice with Diverse Clients

  9. Safer Sex Counseling in Practice

  10. HIV Testing

  11. Counseling Before and After the HIV Test

  12. Ethical, Legal Issues and Confidentiality Related to HIV Antibody Status

  13. Universality of the Issues Affecting People Living with HIV/AIDS

  14. Facts the Social Worker Needs to Know Before Proceeding

  15. Potential Barriers To Successful Intervention

  16. References

  17. Recommended Readings


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