Chapter 1. A Generalist Practice Model -- in HIV/AIDS Services: An Empowerment Perspective -- Ronald J. Mancoske -- James Donald Smith -- The Ongoing Challenges of HIV/AIDS -- Generalist Practice Model -- The Relationship Process: Engaging Client Systems -- in Services -- The Data Gathering Process -- Assessment -- Interventions -- Evaluation of Services -- The Termination Process -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2. Case Management -- DeAnn Gruber -- Introduction -- Case Management Models -- Research of Case Management -- Emerging Issues in the Field -- Service Implications -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3. The Transtheoretical Model of Behavior -- and Injection Drug Use -- San Patten -- Introduction -- Risk Reduction Among IDUS -- The Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change -- Practitioners' Applications of the TTM -- Current and Future Research of the TTM with IDUs -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Utilization of Needle Exchange Programs -- and Substance Abuse Treatment Services by Injection -- Drug Users: Social Work Practice Implications -- of a Harm Reduction Model 113 -- Therese Fitzgerald -- Timothy Purington -- Karen Davis -- Faith Ferguson -- Lena Lundgren -- 113 Introduction -- 116 The Harm Reduction Philosophy -- 119 Needle Exchange Programs -- Massachusetts State Treatment Needs Assessment Program 122 -- Practice Implications -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5. HIV Prevention Models with Mexican Migrant -- Farmworkers -- Kurt C. Organista -- 135 Introduction -- HIV/AIDS, Mexican Farmworkers, and Agricultural Labor -- in the United States -- Research-Informed Understanding of HIV Risk -- HIV Risk Factors in Mexican Migrant Laborers -- HIV/AIDS-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs, -- and Behaviors -- Contextualizing HIV Risk -- Conceptual Model of Risk -- Implications for HIV Prevention and Treatment Services: -- State of the Art and Beyond -- Longer Term Recommendations: Expanding Resources, -- Infrastructure, and Labor Reform 161 -- Chapter 6. A Family Intervention Model for Engaging -- Hidden At-Risk African Americans in HIV Prevention -- Programs 171 -- Larry D. Icard -- Nushina Siddiqui -- Brook Chidester -- Introduction -- African Americans and HIV -- African Americans As Hidden Populations -- Family-Focused Interventions and Hidden Populations -- Factors to Consider -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7. HIV/AIDS Among African Americans -- in the Mississippi/Louisiana Delta Region: A Macro -- Practice Empowerment Model 187 -- Peggy Pittman Munke -- Vincent J. Venturini -- Statement of the Problem -- African Americans and the Risk of HIV/AIDS -- HIV/AIDS in Rural America -- Proposed Practice Model for Culturally Sensitive Practice -- with African Americans 194 -- Chapter 8. Cultural Influences on HIV/AIDS Prevention: -- 207 Louisiana African-American Women -- Sybil G. Schroeder -- Introduction -- HIV/AIDS Statistical Overview -- Louisiana African-American Women -- Ethnic Epistemology -- Culture in Prevention Efforts.

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