Although there are 50,000 cases of new HIV diagnoses each year in the U.S., people are living longer with HIV/AIDS (CDC, 2016). Due to the paucity of literature containing current experiences of counseling professionals who have actively or are currently working with people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), this research explored the counseling professionals’ role and significance in HIV/AIDS mental health care services and prevention for treating PLWHA. The purpose of this phenomenological research study is to examine the life experiences of counseling professionals who are actively working with clients who are living with HIV/AIDS to answer this study’s research question “what are the lived experience of counseling professionals is working with clients with HIV?”
Dissertation
A phenomenological study examining the lived experiences of counseling professionals working with individuals living with HIV
University of Iowa
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Iowa
Summer 2019
DOI: 10.17077/etd.h0vr-7k41
Abstract
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A phenomenological study examining the lived experiences of counseling professionals working with individuals living with HIV
- Creators
- Roseina Dominique Britton - University of Iowa
- Contributors
- David Duys (Advisor)Susannah M. Wood (Advisor)Ain A Grooms (Committee Member)Ebonee Johnson (Committee Member)Armeda Wojciak (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Degree Awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Counseling, Rehabilitation and Student Development
- Date degree season
- Summer 2019
- DOI
- 10.17077/etd.h0vr-7k41
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- Number of pages
- xii, 149 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2019 Roseina Dominique Britton
- Language
- English
- Date submitted
- 11/06/2019
- Description illustrations
- color illustration
- Description bibliographic
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 116-130).
- Public Abstract (ETD)
Although there are 50,000 cases of new HIV diagnoses each year in the U.S., people are living longer with HIV/AIDS (CDC, 2016). This research explored the counseling professionals’ role and significance in HIV/AIDS mental health care services and prevention, for treating PLWHA. The purpose of this phenomenological research study is to examine the life experiences of counseling professionals who are actively working with clients who are living with HIV/AIDS to answer this study’s research question “what are the lived experience of counseling professionals is working with clients with HIV?” Counselors and allied professionals in this study described the limitation, implications and experiences of providing services to PLWHA. This resulted in the emergence of 6 major themes from the interviews.
- Academic Unit
- Counselor Education
- Record Identifier
- 9983776859002771
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