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Y Joon Choi1, Diane M Langhorst, Sarah Meshberg-Cohen, Dace S Svikis.
Abstract
Alcohol and drug dependent women are at increased risk for HIV/STDs. This paper discusses how a prevention curriculum, "Safer Sex Skill Building" (SSB), designed to reduce the contraction of HIV/STDs among drug-abusing women, could be modified to fit the needs of alcohol-abusing women in a residential treatment program. Authors modified the SSB by incorporating feedback from expert consultants as well as by engaging study participants in revising the therapy manual in order to create a curriculum that speaks to participants' experiences. Specific steps to assist those who would want to adapt an empirically-based manual-driven treatment intervention are provided.Entities:
Year: 2011 PMID: 22446487 PMCID: PMC3310367 DOI: 10.1080/1533256X.2011.619938
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Soc Work Pract Addict ISSN: 1533-256X