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Article: Rehabilitation counseling for people with HIV disease.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Rehabilitation
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 National Rehabilitation Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Acquired immune deficiency syndrome is everyone's crisis. Gone are the days of thinking of AIDS as a gay disease, a disease for drug users, a disease that no one we know will get. Gone are the days when only a handful of counselors would work with people with AIDS. The AIDS epidemic has changed, has grown, has mutated and exploded to the extent that today, counselors are no longer immune. We can no longer escape our responsibility to work with clients concerned or frightened or hurt or infected by AIDS. AIDS . . . has affected the field of counseling in ways so crucial that we can no longer sit back as innocent bystanders. We must act. (Kain, 1989, p. viii)
As we ...