Heather Salt
Biographic Data
| ID | 6803734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Salt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Salt |
| SIGNATURE | SALT H |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Royal Free Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Counselling patients with HIV infection about laboratory tests with predictive values
Laboratory tests, including CD4 counts, p24 antigen, raised levels of B2 microglobulin, neopterin and CMV antibodies, have been established as important predictive markers of disease progression in patients with HIV infection. As HIV antibody testing becomes more accepted in medical practice, counselling about these laboratory predictors of progression can help patients and doctors plan together the patients' care and treatment. Addressing patien…
Systemic hiv/aids counselling
There has been considerable emphasis on psychosocial support for people with HIV/AIDS in recent years. Approaches to counselling inevitably reflect the personal style and conceptual framework adopted by the counsellor. Certain patterns, themes and ideas may arise in the context of counselling about HIV/AIDS. These include issues relating to unpredictability, hopelessness, separateness, dying and confidentially. One task of the systemic HIV/AIDS c…
HIV prevention
The application of current health promoting behaviour models for understanding psycho-social determinants of condom use is discussed. It was concluded that their utility is reduced because they are individualistic models and do not take into account interaction between couples, and contextual factors. Systemic AIDS counselling and relapse prevention approaches to invervention may provide a better basis for developing an appropriate methodology fo…
Paradoxical interventions in counselling for people with an intractable Aids-worry
This article has two main objectives. Firstly, consideration is given to the context in which certain individuals become convinced that they have been infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), despite repeated negative HIV antibody tests and reassurance. Secondly, it is to describe an intervention which is designed to escalate anxiety in individuals with an intractable AIDS-worry, in order to release them from their rigid and distress…
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Paradoxical interventions in counselling for people with an intractable Aids-worry
This article has two main objectives. Firstly, consideration is given to the context in which certain individuals become convinced that they have been infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), despite repeated negative HIV antibody tests and reassurance. Secondly, it is to describe an intervention which is designed to escalate anxiety in individuals with an intractable AIDS-worry, in order to release them from their rigid and distress…
HIV prevention
The application of current health promoting behaviour models for understanding psycho-social determinants of condom use is discussed. It was concluded that their utility is reduced because they are individualistic models and do not take into account interaction between couples, and contextual factors. Systemic AIDS counselling and relapse prevention approaches to invervention may provide a better basis for developing an appropriate methodology fo…
Counselling patients with HIV infection about laboratory tests with predictive values
Laboratory tests, including CD4 counts, p24 antigen, raised levels of B2 microglobulin, neopterin and CMV antibodies, have been established as important predictive markers of disease progression in patients with HIV infection. As HIV antibody testing becomes more accepted in medical practice, counselling about these laboratory predictors of progression can help patients and doctors plan together the patients' care and treatment. Addressing patien…
Systemic hiv/aids counselling
There has been considerable emphasis on psychosocial support for people with HIV/AIDS in recent years. Approaches to counselling inevitably reflect the personal style and conceptual framework adopted by the counsellor. Certain patterns, themes and ideas may arise in the context of counselling about HIV/AIDS. These include issues relating to unpredictability, hopelessness, separateness, dying and confidentially. One task of the systemic HIV/AIDS c…
Medicine (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Psychotherapist (3 works) · Family medicine (2 works) · Psychosocial (2 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (1 work) · Antibody (1 work) · Anxiety (1 work)