Handbook of HIV and social work: principles, practice, and populations

In the past 30 years, treatment and responses to HIV/AIDS have moved from an original crisis intervention mode to one of sustained strategic response. Looking ahead, what are best practices for human services service delivery, disease prevention, and health advocacy? This comprehensive volume provides timely and thought-provoking perspectives on this complex and devastating pandemic where unfortunately, a cure has yet to be found. The contributors focus on HIV practice and policy in the US and from a social work perspective.The book is divided into three parts. The first part, Principles, lays the groundwork necessary to understand all HIV services, advocacy, and prevention. The second part, Methods, focuses on social work methods and how they are used in the HIV field. The third section, Populations, highlights particularly vulnerable populations.Cynthia Cannon Poindexter, MSW, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service in New York, where she teaches HIV practice and HIV policy. Poindexter has been in the HIV field since 1987, and she has worked for and consulted with local and state HIV service programs in Boston, Chicago, and South Carolina.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-26093-7
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 384
• Fecha Publicación: 07/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés