AIDS and Mental Health Practice: Clinical and Policy Issues

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Addressing contemporary issues faced by individuals with HIV/AIDS, AIDS and Mental Health Practice: Clinical and Policy Issues provides psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and counselors with research and case studies that offers models for effective clinical practice at this stage of the epidemic. Each chapter is written by experts in the field and demonstrates ways to provide better... Read more

Addressing contemporary issues faced by individuals with HIV/AIDS, AIDS and Mental Health Practice: Clinical and Policy Issues provides psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and counselors with research and case studies that offers models for effective clinical practice at this stage of the epidemic. Each chapter is written by experts in the field and demonstrates ways to provide better services to different populations, many of whom are ignored in AIDS and mental health literature. As a result, this book will provide professionals in the field and students in training with the most current practice information about mental health practice and HIV/AIDS. AIDS and Mental Health Practice will help you understand the diverse needs of people with HIV/AIDS and organize services to assist these populations.

AIDS and Mental Health Practice discusses issues that affect several different groups in order to help you understand the unique situations of your clients. You will learn how to design treatments that will be most beneficial to Latinos, intravenous drug users, orphaned children, African Americans, HIV-negative gay men, HIV nonprogressors, HIV-positive transsexuals, end-stage AIDS clients, couples of mixed HIV status, and individuals suffering from HIV-associated Cognitive Motor Disorder. This book provides you with approaches that will improve services for these populations, including:

talking to patients about the positive and negative aspects of taking protease inhibitors and discussing their feelings of hope, skepticism, and fear of being disappointed by the treatment
preparing clients to go back to work by exploring the meaning of work and referring them to vocational services if necessary
providing support groups for people living with AIDS (PLWAs), their loved ones, their families, and individuals in bereavement as a result of an AIDS-related death
organizing a HIV-negative gay men’s support group that uses exercises and homework to focus on the members’ambivalent connection to the AIDS community, how they remain HIV negative, and ways to deal with separation and grief issues
assessing and/or correcting underlying racism in AIDS service organizations

The prevention and intervention strategies in Mental Health and AIDS Practice will help you address and treat mental health issues associated with HIV/AIDS and offer clients more effective and relevant services.

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I. Clinical Issues
The Role of Mental Health Professionals in Medical Decision Making Regarding Protease Inhibitors
Intrapsychic and Systemic Issues Concerning Returning to Work for People Living with HIV/AIDS
An Exploration of Change: The Influence of Combination Therapies on PLWA Support Groups
Telephone Support Groups for HIV-Positive Bereaved Mothers of Young Children
HIV Prevention, Women, and the Kitchen Sink Model
Losing Lawrence: The Death of a Child in a Residential Child Welfare Facility
A Question of Survival: Issues in Counseling Homeless Persons with HIV
Support Groups for HIV-Negative Gay Men
Finding Their Voices in Group: HIV-Negative Gay Men Speak
Spiritual Issues and HIV/AIDS in the Latino Community
HIV/AIDS Mental Health Services to Black Men
In the Eye of the Hurricane: Clinical Issues for HIV-Positive Slow and Non-Progressors from a Self-Psychology Perspective
HIV Care for Male to Female Pre-operative Transsexuals
Internalized Homophobia in the Psychotherapy of Gay Men with HIV/AIDS
Dying Well: Counseling End-Stage Clients with AIDS
Psychotherapy, Counseling, Suicide, and Self-Deliverance
‘Story Telling’ in a Bereavement Support Group for Pediatric HIV/AIDS Case Managers of the Brooklyn Pediatric AIDS Network
Social Work with Hospitalized AIDS Patients: Observations from the Front Lines of an Inner-City Hospital
African American Women Still Remain Invisible: Are Mental Health Professionals Doing Enough? Clinical Cultural Competence Issues
Reflections from the Field . . . Looking Beyond the Behavior to See the Need: A Case Study
Entrusted with Secrets: Working with Immigrants with HIV
Couples of Mixed HIV Status: Therapeutic and Policy Issues
HIV-Associated Cognitive/Motor Complex: Early Detection, Diagnosis, and Intervention
II. Policy Issues
Identifying and Confronting Racism in AIDS Service Organizations
The Challenges of HIV/AIDS Education and Training for Social Workers and Other Mental Health Professionals
Models Created in Response to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: The New York Peer AIDS Education Coalition
HIV, Suicide, and Hastened Death
Coming Out Positive?: HIV Prevention for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth
Index
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R Dennis Shelby, Michael Shernoff

AIDS and Mental Health Practice Clinical and Policy Issues

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