Understanding and Preventing HIV Risk Behavior: Safer Sex and Drug Use (Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803974256 ISBN 13: 9780803974258

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1996

Synopsis

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.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803974256
• ISBN 13: 9780803974258
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 291
• Editor: Oskamp Stuart, Thompson Stacy D.