BACKGROUND HIV prevention is increasingly focused on people living with HIV (PLWH) and the role of healthcare settings in prevention. Emergency Departments (EDs) frequently care for PLWH, but do not typically endorse a prevention mission. We conducted a pilot exploratory evaluation of the first reported ED program to address the prevention needs of PLWH. METHODS This retrospective observation...

While multicultural awareness in counseling has risen substantially in the last decade, little research has examined counseling utilization and outcomes for ethnic minorities on university campuses. A sample of 1,166 African American, Asian American, Caucasian, and Hispanic help-seeking university students from over 40 universities nationwide filled out the Outcome Questionnaire 45 at the first...

Of the 13 principles of drug addiction treatment disseminated by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), 7 were meta-analyzed as part of the Evidence-based Principles of Treatment (EPT) project. By averaging outcomes over the diverse programs included in the EPT, we found that 5 of the NIDA principles examined are supported: matching treatment to the client's needs, attending to the multip...

The person-centered counseling approach has evolved in applications ranging from nondirective, client-centered, and student-centered to people-centered approaches. This paper describes the application of guidance services. research method used a literature study. results study analysis were synthesized using narrative by grouping information or data according objectives showed that order truly ...

OBJECTIVE Patients' unhealthy alcohol use is often undetected in primary care. Our objective was to examine whether physicians' attitudes and their perceived self-efficacy for screening and counseling patients is associated with physicians' counseling of patients with unhealthy alcohol use, and patients' subsequent drinking. METHODS This study is a prospective cohort study (nested within a ra...

International Family Planning Perspectives Many medical workers who treat women experiencing complications of induced or spontaneous abortion readily acknowledge that such women need “counseling,” but they often view counseling as a nonmedical function requiring specific training, a specially designated time apart from the provision of other postabortion services and a separate, private facilit...

OBJECTIVE To survey inner-city prostitutes' perceived health needs. METHODS One hundred forty street prostitutes in Washington DC, were surveyed to determine their perceived health needs, in addition to levels of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). RESULTS The final sample comprised 100 individuals, representing 3 subgroups of prostitutes, female, male, and transgender male. Major health...

Genetic counseling is a well-established healthcare discipline that provides individuals and families with health information about disorders that have a genetic component in a supportive counseling encounter. It has recently been applied in the context of psychiatric disorders (like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, depression and anxiety...

Survey of Guidance and Counseling Needs in Medical Students Rafsanjan University Sciences 2021: A Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study