AIDS and mental health practice : clinical and policy issues / Michael Shernoff, editor.

"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 Ameri...

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Other Authors: Shernoff, Michael, 1951-2008.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Binghamton, NY : Haworth Press, [1999]
Series:Haworth psychosocial issues of HIV/AIDS.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. The role of mental health professionals in medical decision making regarding protease inhibitors-- Ch. 2. Intrapsychic and systemic issues concerning returning to work for people living with HIV/AIDS-- Ch. 3. An exploration of change: the influence of combination therapies on PWA support groups-- Ch. 4. Telephone support groups for HIV-positive bereaved mothers of young children-- Ch. 5. HIV prevention, women, and the kitchen sink model-- Ch. 6. Losing Lawrence: the death of a child in a residential child welfare facility.
  • Ch. 7. A question of survival: issues in counseling homeless persons with HIV-- Ch. 8. Support groups for HIV-negative gay men-- Ch. 9. Finding their voices in groups: HIV-negative gay men speak-- Ch. 10. Spiritual issues an HIV/AIDS in the latino community-- Ch. 11. HIV/AIDS mental health services to black men-- Ch. 12. In the eye of the hurricane: clinical issues for HIV-positive slow and nonprogressors from a self-psychology perspective-- Ch. 13. HIV care for male-to-female pre-operative transsexuals.
  • Ch. 14. Internalized homophobia in psychotherapy of gay men with HIV/AIDS-- Ch. 15. Dying well: counseling end-stage clients with AIDS-- Ch. 16. Psychotherapy, counseling, and self-deliverance-- Ch. 17. "Storytelling" in a bereavement support group for pediatric HIV/AIDS case managers of the Brooklyn pediatric AIDS network-- Ch. 18. Social work with hospitalized AIDS patients: observations from the front lines of an inner-city hospital-- Ch. 19. African-American women still remain invisible: are mental health professionals doing enough? Clinical cultural competence issues.
  • Ch. 20. Reflections from the field: looking beyond the behavior to see the need- A case study-- Ch. 21. Entrusted with secrets- working with immigrants with HIV-- Ch. 22. Couples of mixed HIV status: therapeutic and policy issues-- Ch. 23. HIV-associated cognitive/motor complex: early detection, diagnosis, and intervention-- Ch. 24. Identifying and confronting racism in AIDS service organizations-- Ch. 25. The challenges of HIV/AIDS education and training for social workers and other mental health professionals.
  • Ch. 26. Models created in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic: the New York peer AIDS education coalition-- Ch. 27. HIV, suicide, and hastened death-- Ch. 28. Coming out positive? HIV prevention for gay, lesbian, and bisexual youths.