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HIV: How Can the Mental Health Field Help Prevent HIV Infection

2.00 - CE credit hours training

$11.00 - Cost of course

This page contains important information about the course, including training details, a comprehensive course description, learning objectives, and source references. We encourage you to review each section to gain a clear understanding of the course content, educational goals, and supporting materials before beginning your training and taking the POST TEST below.

Target audience and instructional level of this course: foundational
There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.

HIV: How Can the Mental Health Field Help Prevent HIV Infection

Follow the link below, read the material and then take the 12 question post test

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HIV: How Can the Mental Health Field Help Prevent HIV Infection

12 Questions

1. The Roland study focused on counseling with individuals who had already engaged in HIV exposure behavior. What did the study find?
2. The Alvy study found evidence that:
3. The study by Bogart and colleagues looked at the prevalence of early violent experiences to investigate the role of early experiences of violence in relation to HIV infection incidence.
4. Using the results of the de Vet study which would you recommend to facilitate condom use?
5. The Noar study (2011) found that the most critical factors in consistent condom use with ____________ were barriers/cons of condom use, self-efficacy in condom use, and negotiating strategies.
6. A recent NIAID study found that, amongst HIV infected men and women infected with relatively healthy immune systems, taking oral anti-retroviral medicines did not reduce the risk of transmitting the HIV virus to sexual partners.
7. Johnson et al. (2011) conducted a review of the efficacy of behavioral interventions to reduce sexual risk of HIV among adolescents. They found interventions had positive effects, but effects varied. Which condition(s) were associated with larger positive effects?
8. Kershaw et al. (2010) studied "relationship dissolution" and how it related to STD incidence. Relationship dissolution amongst which group increased STD rates more?
9. Nostlinger et al. (2010) studied the information-motivation-behavioral [(IMB)] skills model to identify predictors of condom use among heterosexual people living with HIV with their steady partners. Amongst men and women, self- efficacy for condom use was influenced by different factors. Which is the proper match?
10. In the Toolbox on HIV prevention-2011, task-shifting is described. Do the results from Tirman's (2010) study of the Treatment Advocacy Program generally support the potential use of task-shifting?
11. Otto-Salaj et al.(2010) studied various strategies for increasing the success of condom negotiation attempts. Which of the following were found?
12. Teti et al (2010) studied the impact of discrimination on predominantly low income black women who had acquired HIV through heterosexual intercourse. Which of the following components did they NOT recommend as part of safer sex programs with this population?
Despite the tremendous benefit of anti-retroviral medicines, prevention of HIV infection remains the ideal outcome. The mental health field continues to play a key role in HIV prevention efforts. In this course factors that contribute to safe and unsafe sexual behaviors are presented. The course also outlines recent mental health and other interventions that can reduce risk for HIV infection.
  • identify factors that contribute to safe and unsafe sexual behaviors.
  • describe mental health and other interventions that can reduce risk for HIV infection.
Published by the Center for Mental Health Services and SAMHSA