Single-session motivational enhancement counseling to support change toward reduction of HIV transmission by HIV positive persons.
Given the enormous successes in treating HIV disease with antiretroviral therapies, there is a burgeoning population of healthy, sexually active HIV+ men and women. Because HIV prevention counseling has focused traditionally on persons at risk of becoming infected, there is an urgent mandate to explore ways to engage HIV+ persons in transmission risk reduction counseling. Using two case examples, this article presents an overview of motivational interviewing in a single counseling session as a promising treatment for addressing ambivalence about safer sex with HIV+ persons.
Rutledge
Scott Edward
SE
School of Social Administration, Temple University, 1301 Cecil B. Moore Ave., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA. srutled@temple.edu
D000328:Adult; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods*; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000523:psychology / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior; D021841:Safe Sex / Q000523:psychology*; D012747:Sexual Partners