Barebacking: Psychosocial and Public Health Approaches - Brossura

Drescher, Jack; Halkitis, Perry; Wilton, Leo

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ISBN 10: 0789021749 ISBN 13: 9780789021748

Casa editrice: CRC Press, 2006

Riassunto

Go beyond the statistics to discover why many gay and bisexual men take the health risk and what can be done about it

The rate of new HIV diagnoses and other sexually transmitted infections among men having sex with men has increased sharply, especially in men of color. Barebacking: Psychosocial and Public Health Approaches examines in depth the reasons why so many gay and bisexual men indulge in barebacking, or intentional unprotected sex. Respected experts reveal the latest studies that explore every facet of this alarming trend that apparently began as a phenomenon confined to those who had already been infected.

The mounting likelihood of a renewed epidemic is a troubling public health issue that reaches beyond gays and bisexuals into the heterosexual community. The aim of Barebacking: Psychosocial and Public Health Approaches is to provide clinicians with some insights to foster strategies for addressing these unsafe sexual behaviors. This book presents the studies of researchers working in the field as well as those who can provide both research and clinical perspectives. Thoroughly researched and richly referenced, this book is an essential resource for health and mental health professionals.

In Barebacking: Psychosocial and Public Health Approaches, you’ll find discussion and research on:

• the public health perspective of the emergence of barebacking among gay and bisexual men
  
• how the term barebacking differs between various gay and bisexual men
  
• how club drug use has posed a public health threat
  
• HIV transmission risks among men who meet through the Internet
  
• barebacking among Internet-based male sex workers
  
• assessing HIV-negative gay or bisexual men
  
• a treatment model for barebackers
  
• psychotherapy considerations for individual gay men and male couples having unsafe sex
  
  

Barebacking: Psychosocial and Public Health Approaches is an insightful and comprehensive research source, essential for psychologists, researchers, public health officials, counselors, psychotherapists, and anyone concerned with the HIV epidemic in the United States.

Su questo libro

Contenuti:

• Preface: Psychosocial and Public Health Approaches to Barebacking (Ronald Stall)
  
• Introduction: Why Barebacking? (Perry N. Halkitis, Leo Wilton, and Jack Drescher)
  
• The Emergence of Barebacking Among Gay and Bisexual Men in the United States: A Public Health Perspective (Richard J. Wolitski)
  
• What’s in a Term? How Gay and Bisexual Men Understand Barebacking (Perry N. Halkitis, Leo Wilton, and Paul Galatowitsch)
  
• An Exploratory Study of Barebacking, Club Drug Use, and Meanings of Sex in Black and Latino Gay and Bisexual Men in the Age of AIDS (Leo Wilton, Perry N. Halkitis, Gary English, and Michael Roberson)
  
• Evidence of HIV Transmission Risk in Barebacking Men-Who-Have-Sex-With-Men: Cases from the Internet (Alvin G. Dawson, Jr., Michael W. Ross, Doug Henry, and Anne Freeman)
  
• Barebacking Among Internet Based Male Sex Workers (David S. Bimbi and Jeffrey T. Parsons)
  
• Attitudes Toward Unprotected Anal Intercourse: Assessing HIV-Negative Gay or Bisexual Men (Ariel Shidlo, Huso Yi, and Boaz Dalit)
  
• Motivating the Unmotivated: A Treatment Model for Barebackers (Jeffrey T. Parsons)
  
• Condomless Sex: Considerations for Psychotherapy with Individual Gay Men and Male Couples Having Unsafe Sex (Michael Shernoff)
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

Su questa edizione

• Editore: CRC Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0789021749
• ISBN 13: 9780789021748
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 194