Factors related to family therapists' breaking confidence when clients disclose high-risks-to-HIV/AIDS sexual behaviors

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 457-472

  Pais, Shobha ^a   Piercy, Fred ^b   Miller, JoAnn ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONFIDENTIALITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; FAMILY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MARITAL THERAPY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CONFIDENTIALITY; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; ETHICS, PROFESSIONAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FAMILY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; MARITAL THERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK-TAKING; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032175361     PISSN: 0194472X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1998.tb01100.x     Document Type: Article

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