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Document 2085
DOCN M94A2085
TI Women's emotional response to AIDS.
DT 9412
AU Kasta W; Moore C; Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, North York, Ontario.
SO Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):384 (abstract no. PD0144). Unique
Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370490
AB This paper will address themes from a ten-week psychotherapy group for
women with a recent diagnosis of H.I.V. infection. The group was planned
on a stress and coping model and was co-led by a Clinical Nurse
Specialist in Psychiatry and a Social Worker affiliated with the H.I.V.
Clinic. It was offered at a time when there were few resources for women
with H.I.V. infection. Goals of the group were to assess and improve
coping skills; to educate women about their illness in a supportive
environment; and to establish a network of support for these women that
could be maintained when the group ended. Themes of the group included
victimization, anger at family and friends, frustration with the health
care system and feelings of powerlessness. This paper will address the
psychotherapy themes of lived experience with A.I.D.S., will describe
the strengths and weaknesses of the stress and coping model and propose
a different model based on grieving and feminist theory for women
suffering from H.I.V. infection. The overall evaluations of the group
were favourable and it is proposed that women do better with a
supportive rather than a politically active thrust to group and
individual healing.
DE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*PSYCHOLOGY *Adaptation,
Psychological *Emotions Female Grief Human Internal-External
Control Patient Care Team Patient Education *Psychotherapy, Group
*Sick Role Social Support MEETING ABSTRACT
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).