other factors as they may have positive and negative effects of successful and non-successful treatment outcomes. When dealing with individuals that have a substance abuse disorder and living with a HIV positive status‚ treatment may warrant a different approach. The writer will examine different factors‚ counseling techniques‚ treatments‚ and recommendation that will be beneficial to counselors for males with a substance abuse disorder and an HIV positive status in a group counseling setting.
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Paediatric HIV/AIDS in India . According to National AIDS Control Organization 2007 estimates ‚out of an estimated 2.31 million people with HIV and AIDS in India‚ women constitutes 39% and children below 15 years stands at 7.8% Improved access to Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) centres is key to fight against HIV/AIDS. It is important to design and implement intensive child-focused IEC separately targeting rural and urban population through an appropriate mix of media.It is also important
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Erikson’s Level of Psychosocial Theory is used to describe human behavioral development among different age groups. I interviewed my mother to determine the ideal development process from adolescents to late adulthood. Each response shows the significant difference between adolescents and late adulthood. The first question asked was “What do you think about a couple living together before marriage?” My mother’s response was “A couple should only live together if they are married.” I disagree with
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The impact of psychological interventions on psychosocial risk factors for stroke and their relationship with the immune system The impact of psychological interventions on psychosocial risk factors for stroke and their relationship with the immune system Introduction More than 2‚400 years ago the father of medicine‚ Hippocrates‚ recognized and described stroke as apoplexy‚ which means “struck down by violence”. Stroke is a condition with high mortality rate (Townsend et al.‚ 2012) and leading
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Someone discovers they have HIV in the United States every nine and a half minutes. HIV testing should be mandatory for everyone in our society. Many people are not aware of HIV or think because they have had limited sexual partners they are not subject to contracting this disease so they do not get tested. Making testing mandatory people can find out whether or not they have this disease‚ also it will be fair to people entering into a relationship with potential HIV positive partners. Mandatory
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Psychosocial Development Psychosocial development is an integration of the principles of personal‚ psychological and cultural or social development. The psychosocial view of problems focuses on the idea that problems are rooted in relationship issues. Heinz Kohut said humans have narcissistic needs that are satisfied by other people‚ represented as self-objects. If the child receives enough mirroring (positive attention) from self-objects (chiefly the mother)‚ the sense of self develops appropriately
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HIV/AIDS in the African American Community Teneika Carlisle Current Issues/HIV infection MULT 171 (Web 92100) May 23‚ 2010 HIV/AIDS in the African American Community The African American Community is facing a major health crisis called HIV/AIDS. This disease has become a pandemic in the African American Community. South Africa alone has 5.7 million people living with HIV and AIDS in 2009‚ more than any other country. Almost one-in-three women aged 25-29‚ and over a quarter of men aged 30-34
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about the HIV/AIDS problem in your country. You must cover the following points: 1. The size of the problem: How many people are infected? Which are the key population groups that are affected? What are the main routes of transmission? 2. Describe the cultural/social norms in your country and how they impact on the developing situation 3. How do you think that the knowledge above might be used to tackle this problem and reduce the spread of the HIV/AIDS? WORD COUNT: 898 HIV is one of
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to explain the impact of HIV/AIDS on San Francisco‚ the rest of the United States‚ as well as the rest of the world. I will tell how it started small an expanded across the globe. This disease killed many and is still taking many lives today. The origin of the disease is believed to be in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where people hunted infected chimpanzees for meat and became infected themselves when they came into contact with the chimpanzee blood(Where did HIV come from?‚ 2012).
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Lethal Sex: Conditions of Disclosure in Counseling Sexually Active Clients with HIV Elliot D. Cohen‚ Ph.D. The present HIV pandemic presents challenges for mental health practitioners who‚ in the course of therapy‚ sometimes become privy to confidential information about potentially lethal sexual relationships ongoing between the client and one or more uninformed partner(s). In this lecture I will discuss the current professional/legal status of making disclosure in such cases‚ and
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