Abstract

POLETTO, Mariana Pasquali; HECK, Camila; CALSA, Daniela da Cunha  and  MOSKOVICS, Jenny Milner. Automatic thoughts and core beliefs associated with HIV/AIDS in seropositive individuals. Temas psicol. [online]. 2015, vol.23, n.2, pp. 243-253. ISSN 1413-389X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.9788/TP2015.2-01.

AIDS is considered a serious problem of public health, characterized by being a global epidemic that presents a fast evolution of its symptomatology. The counseling practiced at the Centers of Testing and Counseling (CTA) aim to reflect about HIV and AIDS and the stigma of living with the virus, as verify the functionality of the thoughts and beliefs about HIV/AIDS. The cognivite theory ratifies that there are not the facts that cause suffering to the people, but the way they are interpreted, that generate distorted cognitions about them. Therefore, individuals' behaviors tend to confirm thoughts and feelings associated to this way of understand the situations, the beliefs. This study purposes to analyze the automatic thoughts and central beliefs most frequently related to HIV/AIDS on seropositive individuals, from a critical review of the literature opinionated character.

Keywords : HIV; automatic thoughts; beliefs; seropositives; treatment.

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