Understanding and Preventing HIV Risk Behavior: Safer Sex and Drug Use

Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology

by Stuart Oskamp (Editor), Suzanne C. Thompson (Editor)

In almost 20 years of tackling the AIDS epidemic, one theme has consistently the solution to stopping the spread of the AIDS virus, HIV, rests with individual behaviour. The critical question 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 adolescents at risk from AIDS; denial, motivation and behaviour; and special populations.

291 pages, Hardcover

First published July 23, 1996