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Direct linkBaumgartner, Lisa M. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2005
This chapter examines how HIV-positive adults made sense of their diagnosis. Individuals experienced a perspective transformation or change in worldview, which was found to hold over time. Changes in meaning schemes or individual beliefs and assumptions occurred over time.
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Adults, Clinical Diagnosis, Patients
