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Career Issues and Concerns for Persons Living With HIV/AIDS
Author(s) -
Dahlbeck David T.,
Lease Suzanne H.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.2010.tb00184.x
Subject(s) - workforce , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , vignette , work (physics) , perception , psychology , medicine , gerontology , family medicine , social psychology , economic growth , engineering , economics , neuroscience , mechanical engineering
As the perception of HIV/AIDS continues to shift from a terminal illness to a manageable disease, persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) are able to reenter the workforce or remain in their current jobs for a longer period of time. Although this change is positive, it also raises many career concerns for PLWHAs. Using an ecological approach and the theory of work adjustment (Lofquist & Dawis, 1969, 1991), the authors provide suggestions for working with PLWHAs on career‐related issues. A case vignette is presented to demonstrate how this approach may be applied.