What Mental Health Practitioners Need to Know about HIV and AIDS

What Mental Health Practitioners Need to Know about HIV and AIDS

Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 350 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94104-1342. 136p., bibliog., index. (New Directions for Mental Health Services, no. 87, Fall, 2000). ISBN 0-7879-1436-3. ISSN 0193-9416. $25.00. Subscription to New Directions for Mental Health Services, $65.00 individuals, $110.00 institutions.
edited by Francine Cournos, Marshall Forstein. 2000.

This volume of the New Directions for Mental Health Services series was organized by the American Psychiatric Association Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. "This volume is intended to provide an update on HIV-related issues for mental health professionals and includes an overview of basic medical facts, neuropsychiatric manifestations, common psychiatric syndromes and their treatment, psychotherapy and coping strategies, prevention, adherence, legal and ethical issues, and some examples of HIV-related clinical care by frontline mental health providers." This is an extremely well researched book in the series that provides a wide range of important information for those in the mental health professions. It contains 15 papers: "Essential Medical Facts for Mental Health Practitioners," "Psychosocial Issues in Antiretroviral Treatment," "Diagnosis and Treatment of HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders," "Psychotherapeutic Strategies for Coping with HIV Infection," "Some Further Thoughts on Adjustment, Coping, and Bereavement," "Mood and Anxiety Disorders," " Substance Abuse and HIV Infection," "Severe Mental Illness and HIV-AIDS," "Preventing HIV Infection Through Sexual-Behavior Change," "Adherence to Treatment," "Legal and Ethical Issues Relevant to HIV-Positive Psychiatric Patients," "Provider Issues in HIV Care," "An Integrated Program for Comprehensive HIV Care," "A Program for Families and Children Affected by HIV," and "A Practitioner's View from the Front Lines." This is a recommended book for all health science and academic libraries. It should be an essential purchase for mental health professionals.

Keywords: Mental Health; Psychosocial Issues; Neurocognitive Disorders
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