You are seeing a married couple, at times individually. During an individual session the husband reveals that he is bisexual. He also reveals a lengthy history of sexual liaisons with other men and discloses that he recently learned he is HIV positive (via confirmatory tests through his primary care physician). Inquiring, you discover that he has not disclosed his HIV status to his spouse and that he does not use any barrier protection when with her. Upon explaining the life-and-death risk to his wife, he still maintains that he won't change this behavior. He first minimizes the risk, and then claims she would 'suspect something' if he started using protection. After lengthy counseling he remains unwilling to either reveal his HIV status or to use protection. Your duty now is to:

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The Association of Social Work Boards Masters Exam, formerly known as the ASWB Intermediate exam, is a licensure examination designed by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB). The ASWB exams measure skills and knowledge in social work-specific content areas, such as human development and behavior, social and economic justice, and intervention processes.  Each ASWB exam consists of 170 multiple choice questions, including 150 scored questions and 20 questions used for data collection regarding the effectiveness of the exam. The 10 sections of the ASWB Masters Exam include: Human... Show more

You are seeing a married couple, at times individually. During an individual session the husband reveals that he is bisexual. He also reveals a lengthy history of sexual liaisons with other men and discloses that he recently learned he is HIV positive (via confirmatory tests through his primary care physician). Inquiring, you discover that he has not disclosed his HIV status to his spouse and that he does not use any barrier protection when with her. Upon explaining the life-and-death risk to his wife, he still maintains that he won't change this behavior. He first minimizes the risk, and then claims she would 'suspect something' if he started using protection. After lengthy counseling he remains unwilling to either reveal his HIV status or to use protection. Your duty now is to:






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