AEGiS-10IAC: Efficiency evaluation of the group counseling techniques for the modification of professional attitudes not adequate for students of psychology.

10th International AIDS Conference


Yokohama, Japan — Aug 7-12, 1994

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Efficiency evaluation of the group counseling techniques for the modification of professional attitudes not adequate for students of psychology.

Int Conf AIDS 1994 Aug 7-12; 10:391 (abstract no. PD0744)
Malagoli Togliatti M, Clemente A, Masci M; Ardone Department of psycology, La Sapeienza Rome.

OBJECTIVE: students in their fourth year of psychology clinical specialization degree (about 200 participants) are the objects of experimentation and refinement of health promotion methods: a) identification and modification of risk behavior; b) identification and modification of prejudices concerning HIV people.

METHODOLOGY: through questionnaire tested on socio-sanitary operators and young adults, there will be identified stereotypes and risk behavior of a particularly significant population: psychology students in the final phase of university training, these are psychologists destined to become sociosanitary operators, they will receive a specific participative training through plenary and group counseling (10 small group encounters) with the objective of corellating the sense of competence and efficiency (self-efficiency) of the subjects being examined.

RESULTS: the enacting of the counseling groups in a broader training context should allow to modify both the risk behavior and the feeling of impotency and the stereotypes and negative prejudices in the future professional life of the socio-sanitary operator. Thus getting at the base of burn out factors. At the conclusion of the training the students will be interviewed with the same questionnaire and through statistical analysis there will be determined the changes which have taken place in self-effectiveness, risk behavior, individual stereotypes.

Keywords: AEGIS, Students, Attitude, Evaluation Studies, Counseling, Teaching, Risk-Taking, Efficiency, Questionnaires, Universities, Health Promotion, Adult, psychology, methods, education, nursing, ICA10KWDaegis,students,attitude,evaluationstudies,counseling,teaching,risk-taking,efficiency,questionnaires,universities,healthpromotion,adult,psychology,methods,education,nursing,ica10
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