Changing Sexual Behavior Among Gay Male Repeat Testers for HIV
JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency SyndromesPublished 1 June 2002
James Dilley, William J. Woods, James Sabatino, Tania Lihatsh, Barbara Adler, Shannon Casey
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A specific, single-session counseling intervention focusing on a reevaluation of a person's self-justifications operant during a recent occasion of high-risk behavior may prove useful in decreasing individual risk behavior and thus limiting community-level HIV transmission.
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A specific, single-session counseling intervention focusing on a reevaluation of a person's self-justifications operant during a recent occasion of high-risk behavior may prove useful in decreasing individual risk behavior and thus limiting community-level HIV transmission.
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Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders
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