High-Risk Sexual Behavior: Interventions with Vulnerable Populations

by Evvie Becker, Annette U. Rickel, Elizabeth Rankin

Overview

High-risk sexual behavior has been linked to social problems such as substance abuse, domestic violence, homelessness, and deprivation. This volume's unique multidisciplinary biopsychosocial approach combines relevant medical information regarding disease states with the cultural, social, and psychological facets of successful prevention programs. Becker and Rankin outline specific interventions that address the needs of particularly vulnerable populations: women, ethnic minorities, and the gay community. Useful chapter summaries which review the pros and cons of different approaches will aid both the student and the practitioner.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306458576
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	08/31/1998
Series:	Prevention in Practice Library
Edition description:	1998
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Becker, Evvie (Univ of Connecticut); Rankin, Elizabeth (Univ of Connecticut); Rickel, Annette U. (Georgetown Univ)

Table of Contents

1. What’s at Stake: Consequences of Risky Sexual Behavior.- 2. Factors that Influence Sexual Behavior: Causes, Mediators, and Moderators of High-Risk Sexual Behavior.- 3. Models of Prevention.- 4. Guidelines for Prevention, I: Ethnicity and Social Class Considerations.- 5. Guidelines for Intervention, II: Women.- 6. Guidelines for Intervention, III: Gay Men and Bisexuals.- Epilogue.- References.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Bernard J. Turnock, MD, MPH (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Description: This monograph is part of a series devoted to prevention in practice. It seeks to promote greater understanding of how sexual behavior puts individuals at risk of a variety of serious negative consequences. Sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies are the major negative consequences examined.
Purpose: This monograph argues that many different social, ethnic, cultural, end even gender-specific influences on high risk sexual behaviors need to be addressed if interventions are to be effective in community settings.
Audience: It is primarily directed toward professionals and program developers working in sexually transmitted disease (including AIDS/HIV) and family planning programs. These audiences will certainly find this book of value, as will students in public health and behavioral sciences.
Features: Topics include the relationship between high risk sexual behaviors and their negative consequences, mediating and moderating influences on high risk sexual behaviors, methods of prevention, social and cultural influences, unique risks for women, and guidelines for effective interventions.
Assessment: With the society-wide effects of unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases evident across the globe, this monograph clearly addresses important issues and questions. The authors nicely integrate prevention theory with prevention in practice. The result is an interesting and useful monograph that will appeal to a variety of audiences.

Doody's Review Service

3 Stars from Doody

This monograph is part of a series devoted to prevention in practice. It seeks to promote greater understanding of how sexual behavior puts individuals at risk of a variety of serious negative consequences. Sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies are the major negative consequences examined. This monograph argues that many different social, ethnic, cultural, end even gender-specific influences on high risk sexual behaviors need to be addressed if interventions are to be effective in community settings. It is primarily directed toward professionals and program developers working in sexually transmitted disease (including AIDS/HIV) and family planning programs. These audiences will certainly find this book of value, as will students in public health and behavioral sciences. Topics include the relationship between high risk sexual behaviors and their negative consequences, mediating and moderating influences on high risk sexual behaviors, methods of prevention, social and cultural influences, unique risks for women, and guidelines for effective interventions. With the society-wide effects of unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases evident across the globe, this monograph clearly addresses important issues and questions. The authors nicely integrate prevention theory with prevention in practice. The result is an interesting and useful monograph that will appeal to a variety of audiences.

Bernard J. Turnock

Outlines specific interventions that address the needs of particularly vulnerable populations such as women, ethnic minorities, and the gay community. The approach combines relevant medical information regarding disease states with the cultural, social, and psychological facets of successful prevention programs. Of interest to students and practitioners in public health. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

‘...a concise overview of the most salient and contemporary aspects of this emerging social problem. High-risk sexual behavior is discussed in terms of mediating and moderating factors... The strength of the text lies in its clear and precise explication of this complex topic. ...it succeeds in summarizing by way of the biopsychosocial model, many of the underlying assumptions associated with high-risk sexual behavior. It thus provides an informative primer for students, practitioners, researchers, and policy makers alike.'
READINGS (March 1999)
‘In summary, this book will give the reader an excellent understanding of the importance of intervening at a public-health level to reduce high-risk sexual activity and of the models that have shown promise in doing so.'
Psychiatric Services, 50:9 (September 1999)

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