- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- Psychosocial adjustment analysis of HIV/AIDS clients who receive therapy, 1995
- Creator:
- Lieu, Connie
- Date of Original:
- 1995-03-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- This study examined the psychosocial adjustment level of clients in an agency that offered mental health counseling for persons who were HIV positive or had AIDS. The study was based on the premise that the propensity of these clients to stay in counseling was related to their level of psychosocial adjustment. A causal comparative research design was used. A standard psychosocial adjustment instrument, the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) was administered to clients at the initial intake session. It measured nine primary symptom dimensions as well as an overall dimension of psychosocial adjustment. Using a stratified random sampling technique, forty clients were selected and studied, twenty of whom dropped out of counseling during the first month and twenty of whom stayed in four months or longer. Employing the t-Test to determine the difference in scores on the scales of the BSI, the researcher found that although there was a slightly higher psychosocial adjustment level in the clients who stayed in therapy, the only area in which this difference was statistically significant was that of paranoid ideation. The conclusions drawn from the findings suggest that for HIV/AIDS clients who are inclined toward paranoia, it is particularly important to establish a high trust level early in therapy. For other clients it will be necessary to explore other factors that could influence their decision to stay in counseling.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1995_lieu_connie
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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