Ebook: Mental Health Practitioner's Guide to HIV/AIDS
- Tags: Social Work, Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Social Policy
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Although efforts have been made and continue to be made to reduce the rate of HIV transmission in the U.S. and globally, the rates continue to increase in the majority of countries. In the U.S., members of minority communities remain especially at risk of HIV transmission. An individual’s discovery that he or she has contracted HIV, or that a loved one has contracted the illness, often raises significant issues that necessitate interaction with mental health professionals. Mental Health Practitioner’s Guide to HIV/AIDS serves as a quick desk reference for professionals who may be less familiar with the terminology used in HIV/AIDS care and services.
The relationship is a circular one: people with mental illnesses are at increased risk for HIV infection, and individuals infected with HIV may experience a range of mental health problems, from anxiety and depression to conditions related to the disease or its treatment. Patients are not generally aware of this link, and clinicians may not have had the opportunity to have focused training on these intersecting issues.
The Mental Health Practitioner’s Guide to HIV/AIDS offers providers valuable, wide-ranging information regarding these especially vulnerable client populations. Each of its lucidly-written entries offers a digest of the basic facts and explains the salience of the topic in mental health contexts, whether the reader’s interest is in understanding issues, boosting client coping and adherence, reducing care disparities, or improving quality of life. Also, each entry ends with a list of print references and web resources for further reading. An interdisciplinary array of HIV- and AIDS-related topics is included, such as:
- Populations at risk and risk behaviors
- Prevention, intervention, and coping strategies.
- Medical issues, including alternative healing, clinical trials, and aging with HIV.
- Care-related topics: access, standards, caregivers’ issues, and more.
- Social aspects, from stigmatization and partner violence to human rights and activism.
- Legal/ethical concepts, including informed consent, duty to warn, disclosure laws, and the Ryan White Act.
The Mental Health Practitioner’s Guide to HIV/AIDS brings expert, up-to-date knowledge to mental health care providers, such as psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists, and marriage and family therapists.
The relationship is a circular one: people with mental illnesses are at increased risk for HIV infection, and individuals infected with HIV may experience a range of mental health problems, from anxiety and depression to conditions related to the disease or its treatment. Patients are not generally aware of this link, and clinicians may not have had the opportunity to have focused training on these intersecting issues.
The Mental Health Practitioner’s Guide to HIV/AIDS offers providers valuable, wide-ranging information regarding these especially vulnerable client populations. Each of its lucidly-written entries offers a digest of the basic facts and explains the salience of the topic in mental health contexts, whether the reader’s interest is in understanding issues, boosting client coping and adherence, reducing care disparities, or improving quality of life. Also, each entry ends with a list of print references and web resources for further reading. An interdisciplinary array of HIV- and AIDS-related topics is included, such as:
- Populations at risk and risk behaviors
- Prevention, intervention, and coping strategies.
- Medical issues, including alternative healing, clinical trials, and aging with HIV.
- Care-related topics: access, standards, caregivers’ issues, and more.
- Social aspects, from stigmatization and partner violence to human rights and activism.
- Legal/ethical concepts, including informed consent, duty to warn, disclosure laws, and the Ryan White Act.
The Mental Health Practitioner’s Guide to HIV/AIDS brings expert, up-to-date knowledge to mental health care providers, such as psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists, and marriage and family therapists.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Mental Health Comorbidity and HIV/AIDS....Pages 9-35
Legal Issues for the HIV-Infected Client....Pages 37-68
Access to Care....Pages 69-74
Adherence....Pages 75-76
African Americans....Pages 77-80
Aging....Pages 81-83
AIDS Activism....Pages 85-88
AIDS Service Organizations....Pages 89-90
Alternative and Traditional Healing....Pages 91-94
Antiretroviral Therapy....Pages 95-97
Asians and Pacific Islanders....Pages 99-101
Bisexuality....Pages 103-105
Blood and Blood Disorders....Pages 107-111
Caregiving and Caregivers....Pages 113-124
Case Management....Pages 125-127
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....Pages 129-131
Children....Pages 133-135
Christianity....Pages 137-139
Clinical Trials....Pages 141-144
Cognitive Impairment....Pages 145-146
Communication....Pages 147-149
Confidentiality Laws....Pages 151-153
Conspiracy Theories....Pages 155-158
Contact Tracing....Pages 159-164
Coping....Pages 165-167
Council of International Organizations for Medical Sciences....Pages 169-172
Cultural Sensitivity....Pages 173-176
Cytomegalovirus....Pages 177-179
Declaration of Helsinki....Pages 181-183
Denialism....Pages 185-187
Disability Laws....Pages 189-191
Disclosure....Pages 193-195
Disclosure Laws....Pages 197-200
Discrimination....Pages 201-203
Duty to Warn....Pages 205-207
Economic Impact....Pages 209-213
Faith Community....Pages 215-216
Fatalism....Pages 217-218
Gender Identity....Pages 219-221
Gender Roles....Pages 223-225
Harm Reduction....Pages 227-229
Hate Crimes....Pages 231-233
HIV Counseling....Pages 235-239
HIV Testing....Pages 241-244
HIV-Associated Dementia....Pages 245-246
HIV-Related Cancers....Pages 247-251
Housing and Homelessness....Pages 253-256
Human Rights....Pages 257-259
Human Trafficking....Pages 261-263
Immigration....Pages 265-268
Informed Consent....Pages 269-274
Internet....Pages 275-278
Islam....Pages 279-281
Labor Migration....Pages 283-285
Latinos....Pages 287-289
Lesbians....Pages 291-293
Media....Pages 295-296
Medicaid....Pages 297-300
Medical Marijuana....Pages 301-303
Medicare....Pages 305-307
Mindfulness....Pages 309-310
Monogamy....Pages 311-314
Orphans....Pages 315-318
Partner Notification....Pages 319-321
Partner Violence....Pages 323-325
Physician–Patient Relationship....Pages 327-329
Prevention Strategies....Pages 331-335
Protease Inhibitors....Pages 337-338
Quarantine and Isolation....Pages 339-343
Relativism....Pages 345-346
Religion and Spirituality....Pages 347-348
Reproduction....Pages 349-354
Risk Behaviors....Pages 355-357
Risk Groups....Pages 359-362
Ryan White Care Act....Pages 363-364
Sex Toys....Pages 365-367
Sex Work and Sex Workers....Pages 369-372
Sexual Orientation....Pages 373-377
Sexually Transmitted Diseases....Pages 379-384
Social Support....Pages 385-388
Standard of Care....Pages 389-391
Stigma and Stigmatization....Pages 393-395
Substance Use....Pages 397-403
Suicide and HIV....Pages 405-407
Survival Sex....Pages 409-412
Syringe Exchange....Pages 413-415
Transgender....Pages 417-419
Transsexuality....Pages 421-422
Tuskegee Syphilis Study....Pages 423-426
United Nations....Pages 427-430
Universalism....Pages 431-432
Women....Pages 433-436
World Health Organization....Pages 437-438
World Trade Organization....Pages 439-441
Back Matter....Pages 443-454