Learn the latest social service interventions to promote HIV medication adherenceHighly 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.

Frequently asked questions

Simply head over to the account section in settings and click on “Cancel Subscription” - it’s as simple as that. After you cancel, your membership will stay active for the remainder of the time you’ve paid for. Learn more here.

At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.

Both plans give you full access to the library and all of Perlego’s features. The only differences are the price and subscription period: With the annual plan you’ll save around 30% compared to 12 months on the monthly plan.

We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.

Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.

Yes, you can access HIV Treatment Adherence by Lana Sue Ka'opna, Nathan L. Linsk, Lana Sue Ka'opna, Nathan L. Linsk in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Médecine & Maladies et allergies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2013

ISBN

9781136458552

Edition

Topic

Médecine

Subtopic

Maladies et allergies

Cover Page
Half Title page
Series
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: Addressing Challenges of Adherence to HIV Medications for Social Services Practice, Research, and Training
Invited Article
HIV Treatment Adherence Research and Intervention: Current Advances and Future Challenges
Psychosocial Predictors of Adherence to Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy: Practical Implications
The Relationship Between Type and Quality of Social Support and HIV Medication Adherence
Predictors of Medication Adherence Among HIV/AIDS Clients
Social and Religious Support on Treatment Adherence Among HIV/AIDS Patients by Race/Ethnicity
The Development and Feasibility of an Intervention to Improve HAART Adherence Among HIV-Positive Patients Receiving Primary Care in Methadone Clinics
Specialized Adherence Counselors Can Improve Treatment Adherence: Guidelines for Specific Treatment Issues
Training Substance Abuse Counselors About HIV Medication Adherence
More Than Drugs: Voices of HIV-Seropositive Individuals with a History of Substance Use Reveal a Range of Adherence Factors
Index