AIDS and People with Severe Mental Illness: A Handbook for Mental Health ProfessionalsFrancine Cournos, Nick Bakalar, Nicholas Bakalar Yale University Press, 1996 M01 1 - 346 pages While HIV spreads among people with severe mental illness for the same reasons it does in the general population, there are specific ways in which mental illness is associated with elevated HIV risk. Every mental health institution or program now has to deal with the consequences of increased HIV rates, but until now there has been no single book that could tell them how to do so. AIDS and People with Severe Mental Illness covers the entire range of information essential for those who deal with these patients: epidemiological, medical, psychological, legal, ethical, and policy issues are all examined by eminent authorities in those areas. Nurses, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health administrators, forensic specialists, and others involved in the care of people with severe mental illness will find here exactly what they have been looking for: the information essential for dealing with the challenges the AIDS epidemic has set before them. |
Contents
Sexual and DrugUse Risk Behavior | 17 |
Risk Behavior Assessment | 47 |
Medical Manifestations | 74 |
Pre and PostHIV Test Counseling | 97 |
CognitiveBehavioral Risk Reduction Groups | 125 |
Working with HIVInfected People | 148 |
Working with Homeless Mentally Ill Men | 173 |
Management of HIVAIDS in Forensic Settings | 190 |
Essentials of the 1993 Revised | 253 |
The Epidemiology of HIV Infection and AIDS | 267 |
Essentials of the CDC | 272 |
Essentials of the CDC Guidelines for Preventing | 278 |
Essentials of the CDC Guidelines | 296 |
The Prevention of the Sexual Transmission of HIV | 303 |
Commonly Asked Questions | 311 |
Glossary | 317 |
An Overview of Legal Issues | 227 |
Health Care Workers and the HIV Epidemic | 240 |
List of Contributors | 331 |
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