title: Ethical dilemmas related to counseling clients living with HIV/AIDS.
abstract: This study tested an eight-factor model of client actions/decisions in terms of the extent to which professionals counseling persons with HIV/AIDS believed that those actions/decisions presented ethical dilemmas, and the frequency with which they encountered such actions. A confirmatory factor analysis lent initial support for the hypothetical eight-factor ethical-dilemma model for the ratings regarding the extent to which the participants believed those items constituted ethical dilemmas. Similar results were obtained for the frequency ratings, but in this case a second, competing model was equally plausible. Several significant predictors of participant ratings were found and are discussed.
mesh_terms: D003219:Confidentiality; D003376:Counseling / Q000941:ethics*; D003625:Data Collection; D030881:Disclosure / Q000941:ethics; D017007:Duty to Warn; D004995:Ethics, Professional; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000941:ethics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D028662:Principle-Based Ethics; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000941:ethics; D028722:Virtues
keywords: Bioethics and Professional Ethics; Empirical Approach; Health Care and Public Health; Professional Patient Relationship