BH 111 Infectious Disease Risk Assessment and Reduction

Lecture Hours: 1
Credits: 1

Explores the relationship between alcohol and other drug abuse and infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs), and hepatitis. Examines personal issues/discomforts arising from frankly discussing sexual/health behaviors of clients. Provides counseling techniques for assisting clients to identify personal risk and practice harm reduction.

Recommended: BH 101

Student Learning Outcomes:

Discuss the relationship between alcohol and other drugs and infectious diseases.
Discuss current trends in the spread and treatment of sexually transmitted and other infectious diseases for all people.
Conduct a risk assessment and harm reduction interview.
Identify barriers to testing and treatment for special populations in human services settings.
Describe strategies to overcome those barriers to testing and treatment for special populations.
Assess and propose management of personal discomforts from discussing the sexual/health behaviors of clients.

Content Outline

AIDS 101
- Bio-medical aspects of virus and routes of transmission
- Psycho-social impact of HIV/AIDS disease and treatment
- Special populations
- Testing issues
- Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) treatment implications
Counselor Discomfort Issues
- Sex - where did you learn about it and what did you learn
- Values clarification and awareness
- Sexual practices that put clients at risk
Hepatitis 101
- Transmission, progression, and treatment of disease
- Psycho-social impact of diagnosis
Risk Assessment Interview Using Risk Assessment Tool
- Client profile
- Assessment interview
- Client feedback
- Counselor challenges
Prochaska’s Model of Behavioral Change
Risk Reduction Interview
- Language of hope
- Risk reduction interview
- Client feedback
- Process in large group
Confidentiality and Legal Issues for Counselor in Treatment Setting
Resources
- Videos
- Education
- Treatment
- Support
- Internet resources
Best Practices of Behavioral Change Principles
- Levels of readiness
- Alignment of intervention with readiness level
- Personalized health behavior change plan
- Self-management as the organizing framework for behavior change
- Effective use of incentives to motivate supporting behavior
- Role of social support
- Power of peer support
- Culturally responsiveness
Applying Behavioral Change Principles to Real Life Principles
- Clinical situations
- Groups
- In-home visitation areas
Assessing and Evaluation Health Behavior
- Chronic disease
- Medication adherence
- Physical activity
Social and Behavioral Theories of Health Behavior
- Transtheoretical model and self-efficacy
- Health belief model
- Theory of planned behavior
Methods of Health Counseling
- Motivational interviewing
- Acceptance commitment therapy
- Cognitive behavioral and rational emotive therapy