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Chapter 1: Understanding the Clinical and Social Psychological Aspects of HIV -- Chapter 2: HIV: Its History, Science & Epidemiology -- Chapter 3: Sexuality & HIV Risk in Gay Men -- Chapter 4: HIV Prevention -- Chapter 5: HIV Diagnosis, Management & Prognosis -- Chapter 6: HIV & Mental Health -- Chapter 7: Intersecting Identities -- Chapter 8: Looking to the Future – Eradication by 2030?.

In den letzten Jahrzehnten hat die Literatur der indigenen Bevölkerung Kanadas immer mehr an Bedeutung gewonnen. Zeitgenössische literarische Werke können nicht mehr als reine Protestakte verstanden werden, wie dies in der Zeit des organisierten Widerstands innerhalb der "Red Power"-Bewegung in den 1960er und 70er Jahren oft der Fall war, sondern weisen einen hohen Grad an Diversifizierung auf. Ein wichtiger Themenbereich stellt die Behandlung von individuellen und kollektiven Traumata dar, die ihren Ursprung vor allem in den im Zuge der Assimilierungspolitik entstandenen Internatsschulen und den Folgewirkungen von kultureller und sozialer Entfremdung haben. Das Hauptaugenmerk dieser vorliegenden Masterarbeit liegt auf der Auseinandersetzung mit unterschiedlichen psychologischen Aspekten in ausgewählten zeitgenössischen Werken. Nach einer eingehenden Analyse der historischen und aktuellen Herausforderungen bezüglich der Veröffentlichung, Rezeption und Kategorisierung von indigener Literatur, werden die einzelnen Texte in Bezug auf die Darstellung von verschiedenen Formen von Traumata diskutiert. Die genaue Untersuchung der psychologischen Aspekte zeigt, dass indigene Autoren und Autorinnen eine Vielzahl an kreativen und innovativen Strategien entwickelt haben, um einerseits traumatische Erfahrungen überzeugend und nachvollziehbar darzustellen und anderseits auf intratextueller wie auch auf extratextueller Ebene Widerstand gegen die erlebten Traumata zu artikulieren und letztendlich auch Strategien zur Transformation und Heilung zu vermitteln. ; Native Canadian writers have gained a large and wide audience in the last few decades. While many texts published in the context of the 'Red Power Movement' expressed resistance to persisting inequalities, contemporary literary expressions cannot be reduced to protest writing any longer but have proven to be highly innovative and diverse. Numerous Native-authored texts creatively engage with the consequences of traumatic experiences inflicted on the Indigenous population by colonial policies, notably the residential school system and the cultural as well as social alienation caused by these imperial policies. This thesis focuses on Native writers' engagement with individual and collective trauma and its ramifications. After a thorough analysis of the historic and current challenges concerning the publication, reception and categorization of Native writing, it examines the representation of different psychological aspects in selected narratives. The analysis shows that contemporary Native writers employ a plethora of innovative and creative strategies to communicate individual and collective trauma in a persuasive manner and to express resistance to it on the extratextual as well as intratextual level of communication. Furthermore, they offer paradigms for transforming and healing psychological pain and suffering. ; vorgelegt von Sabrina Thom ; Zsfassungen in dt. und engl. Sprache ; Graz, Univ., Masterarb., 2015 ; (VLID)450990

The article deals with some psychological aspects of modern fundamentalism. In research literature this phenomenon is traditionally understood as a reaction to secularization, secularism and modernism. However, as illustrated in this article, today it is rather a response to pluralism and relativism in search of "meanings" and "foundations" of being in the context of worldview uncertainty/ "new boundlessness" (J. Habermas). Due to this background and new tasks modern fundamentalism is substantially transformed. It does no longer emphasize the returning to the "foundations" of religion: sacred texts, theological basis of the doctrine (orthodoxy) or to the religious and civilizational foundations of unity. It desires restoration or a new creation of the "proper", taken on faith, understanding of the reality after the relativization. Therefore it may not refer only to the religious movements but also to the secular ideologies. This new quality of the modern fundamentalism allows to interpret/understand it metaphorically as the "mania of the foundations", which is an additional optics and a theoretical and methodological toolkit for studying religious fundamentalism in the context of transformation of religion in general.

SummaryA controlled comparison study was completed using interview data from 80 women each experiencing their first pregnancy whilst single. Half of the women continued their pregnancy, in some cases marrying the father. The other half obtained an abortion. Two interviewers, one male and the other female, each completed an equal number of interviews with both groups of women.The women selected for the study had the following traits: (1) never married before this, their first conception; (2) aged 17–30 years; (3) white ethnic status; (4) had not delivered or terminated the pregnancy at the time of the interview. The sample consisted of volunteers from the ante-natal and gynaecology clinics at St Mary's Hospital Medical School and Samaritan Hospital for Women, London, W.2, and Kingston and Richmond Hospitals, Surrey.Almost all topics examined in the pre-conception period turned out to be characteristic of women experiencing their first illegitimate conception, whether or not they continued the pregnancy. A detailed examination of contraceptive background revealed no significant differences between the two groups of women, with two exceptions. Women having abortions were more likely, at the time before they conceived, to have accepted the idea of using contraception. A small number of these women were also more likely to have made an effort to obtain a clinical contraceptive device.The only other pre-conception factor found to be associated with abortion involved the relationship with the father up to the time of conception. If that relationship was uncertain, less meaningful than previous ones, or a social rather than a romantic one, the woman was more likely to terminate the pregnancy.In contrast to the pre-conception period, almost all analyses of events subsequent to conception revealed differences between the two groups of women. Both concern over being discredited by other people and concealing information about the pregnancy were traits associated with having an abortion, but in a qualitative rather than an absolute sense. These aspects of social stigma were common to all women before the first pregnancy test, but became more evident amongst women having abortions once the pregnancy had been clinically confirmed. Both concern over being discredited and concealing the pregnancy were experienced in relation to particular persons. For women terminating their pregnancies these were usually their parents.The degree of acceptability of abortion and unmarried motherhood differed between the groups, but they were similar in their views on the acceptability of marriage with pregnancy and adoption. These four alternatives were further examined in terms of the women's preferences and here the two groups differed.Finally, there were differences between the groups in the effect of the pregnancy on the relationship with the putative father. Women having abortions were more likely to find themselves in a relationship that had either finished or was likely to finish after the father knew of the pregnancy. Some were pregnant by a social acquaintance which precluded either marriage or joint parenthood.The findings are discussed in terms of the relationship between contraception and abortion for the single woman and consideration is given to the implications for fertility research and contraceptive and pregnancy services.