NCJ Number
116302
Journal
American Psychologist Volume: 43 Issue: 11 Dated: (November 1988) Pages: complete issue
Editor(s)
T E Backer,
W F Batchelor,
J M Jones,
V M Mays
Date Published
1988
Length
991 pages
Annotation
These 25 papers examine scientific, clinical, and social issues that AIDS presents for psychology.
Abstract
Overview articles examine the roles of psychology in the AIDS health crisis as seen in the psychology profession and from the various levels of science, health care, and legislative and governmental action. Additional papers review the issues of public health, antibody testing, AIDS and the communities of black and Hispanic men, intravenous drug abuse, sexual behavior change, stigma, and psychoneuroimmunology. Further papers set forth a research agenda for psychology and explore how the field can contribute to the scientific study of sexual behavior, social-psychological factors in AIDS prevention, and the virology of AIDS. Other papers examine clinical and counseling issues, including the ways that psychological distress and neuropsychological complications of AIDS affect psychotherapy and how practitioners need to deal with the ethical and legal aspects of AIDS in their work. Prevention and education issues are also examined, particularly in relation to minorities, children and adolescents with AIDS, and persons with hemophilia. The final set of papers examines organizational issues, with emphasis on how psychology as a profession and the American Psychological Association as an organization have responded and how psychology can help deal with AIDS in the workplace. For individual papers, see NCJ-116303-13.