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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 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 organizationsThe 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.
Counseling Chemically Dependent People with HIV Illness describes
frontline clinical treatment of HIV-infected chemically dependent
persons. It provides a realistic view of what the daily work with
this population is like. Specific, in-depth case examples and
material give readers a solid understanding of how to work more
effectively with chemically dependent clients infected with HIV. By
concentrating on practical instead of theoretical aspects of
treatment, this groundbreaking book helps practitioners better
understand problems in treatment and shows different ways treatment
can be given. Authors discuss and describe methods they use such as
group work, drug and AIDS education, treatment teams, and the harm
reduction model. Chapters address work with specific patient
populations with the dual diagnosis of HIV and chemical dependency
and describe treatment in a variety of modalities, such as
outpatient, residential, or hospital setting. This timely book also
includes helpful background material which introduces the
complexities of work with this population through the story of one
man's struggle with AIDS and alcohol and drug addiction. Counseling
Chemically Dependent People with HIV Illness also describes medical
symptoms and problems of HIV-positive persons which gives
non-medical counselors and therapists a preliminary understanding
of what their patients may be undergoing physiologically. Other
chapters focus on such topics as work with adolescents, short term
group work in hospitals, HIV-infected persons on methadone
maintenance, effective AIDS prevention with active drug users, and
countertransference in professionals working with chemically
dependent HIV clients. One of few books to address specifics of
counseling and therapy with this difficult population, Counseling
Chemically Dependent People with HIV Illness is an extremely
valuable and helpful guide for substance abuse counselors,
certified alcoholism counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, and
social workers working in the chemical dependency field.
After years of activism, risk awareness, and AIDS prevention,
increasing numbers of gay men are not using condoms, and new
infections of HIV are on the rise. Using case studies and
exhaustive survey research, this timely, groundbreaking book allows
men who have unprotected sex, a practice now known as
"barebacking," to speak for themselves on their willingness to risk
it all. Without Condoms takes a balanced look at the profound needs
that are met by this seemingly reckless behavior, while at the same
time exposing the role that both the Internet and club drugs like
crystal methamphetamine play in facilitating high-risk sexual
encounters. The result is a compassionate, sophisticated and
nuanced insight into what for many people is one of the most
perplexing aspects of today's gay male culture and life style.
Michael Shernoff digs deep and forces us to see that the AIDS
epidemic is not over. We must now ask the hard questions and listen
to the voices that answer. The stakes are too high to ignore.
A recent gay widower may find that once the shock and initial
confusion of losing his partner is overcome, there are still many
hard, lonely, and overwhelming stages of grief to be worked
through. Often, the bereaved feels isolated, and looking around for
comfort, realizes that he doesn?t have many resources to turn to,
but Gay Widowers: Life After the Death of a Partner is a start. By
offering first-person accounts of becoming a widower, this book,
the first of its kind, allows others who are about to lose or
already have lost a partner to find support, validation,
recognition, and fellowship. Its editor and contributors hope that
by sharing their stories of loss, pain, and bewilderment, they will
help others in mourning as well as make one more step forward in
their own healing.Men of different ages and ethnic, religious,
geographic, and economic backgrounds join together in Gay Widowers
to remind other gay widowers that they are not alone and that their
feelings of pain, anger, and emptiness are normal and legitimate.
Not solely a book about life after the loss of a partner to AIDS,
this book is about rebuilding life as a bereaved gay man,
regardless of the cause of your partner's death. You will find
encouragement for moving your life forward, without shutting your
memories away, as you read about: how homophobia can complicate a
gay widower's grieving and mourning handling financial and legal
matters before and after death specific mental health issues of gay
widowers dating again similarities among gay widowers'responses to
their partners'deaths making time for your feelings rather than
avoiding them finding love after or during bereavement trauma
theory's applications to gay widowersBy bringing forth these
stories, Gay Widowers offers bereaved gay men, psychologists,
counselors, and social workers--in a society where the mourning
process is generally a heterosexual, social construct--a clinical
overview of the psychodynamic issues relevant, and perhaps unique,
to the mourning process of gay men.
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 organizationsThe 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.
A recent gay widower may find that once the shock and initial
confusion of losing his partner is overcome, there are still many
hard, lonely, and overwhelming stages of grief to be worked
through. Often, the bereaved feels isolated, and looking around for
comfort, realizes that he doesn t have many resources to turn to,
but Gay Widowers: Life After the Death of a Partner is a start. By
offering first-person accounts of becoming a widower, this book,
the first of its kind, allows others who are about to lose or
already have lost a partner to find support, validation,
recognition, and fellowship. Its editor and contributors hope that
by sharing their stories of loss, pain, and bewilderment, they will
help others in mourning as well as make one more step forward in
their own healing.Men of different ages and ethnic, religious,
geographic, and economic backgrounds join together in Gay Widowers
to remind other gay widowers that they are not alone and that their
feelings of pain, anger, and emptiness are normal and legitimate.
Not solely a book about life after the loss of a partner to AIDS,
this book is about rebuilding life as a bereaved gay man,
regardless of the cause of your partner s death. You will find
encouragement for moving your life forward, without shutting your
memories away, as you read about: how homophobia can complicate a
gay widower s grieving and mourning handling financial and legal
matters before and after death specific mental health issues of gay
widowers dating again similarities among gay widowers'responses to
their partners'deaths making time for your feelings rather than
avoiding them finding love after or during bereavement trauma
theory s applications to gay widowersBy bringing forth these
stories, Gay Widowers offers bereaved gay men, psychologists,
counselors, and social workers--in a society where the mourning
process is generally a heterosexual, social construct--a clinical
overview of the psychodynamic issues relevant, and perhaps unique,
to the mourning process of gay men.
Research has documented that despite knowing the risks of
unprotected anal intercourse, increasing numbers of gay men are not
using condoms, a practice that has become known as Barebacking.
This groundbreaking book summarizes the research findings about who
is barebacking, where they are doing it and why they say they are
engaging in unprotected sex. Using case examples from the authors'
psychotherapy practice, this book allows men who bareback to speak
for themselves. The author describes the role that the Internet
plays in facilitating unsafe sexual encounters, as well as how
alcohol and club drugs, namely crystal methamphetemine use are also
central to the increase in unsafe sex. He also explores how
committed male couples are wrestling with this issue. While not
denying the public health issues involved in barebacking nor the
dangers inherent to an individual's physical or mental health, the
author takes a balanced look at the variety of profound needs that
are met by this seemingly reckless behavior in an attempt to help
readers understand this important phenomenon. targeted to
professors and students of human sexuality, health care
professionals as well as gay men and anyone else who wants
compassionate, sophisticated and nuanced insights into what for
many people is one of the most perplexing aspects of today's gay
male culture and life style. The author does not make any claims
for an easy or sure fire way to help stop the rising tide of high
risk sexual behaviors, but offers suggestions for ways that health
care professionals can engage men who are barebacking in
conversations and treatment approaches that can help men who
bareback better understand themselves and address the issues that
propel them to do it without being moralistic, sex-negative or
homophobic.
Counseling Chemically Dependent People with HIV Illness describes
frontline clinical treatment of HIV-infected chemically dependent
persons. It provides a realistic view of what the daily work with
this population is like. Specific, in-depth case examples and
material give readers a solid understanding of how to work more
effectively with chemically dependent clients infected with HIV. By
concentrating on practical instead of theoretical aspects of
treatment, this groundbreaking book helps practitioners better
understand problems in treatment and shows different ways treatment
can be given. Authors discuss and describe methods they use such as
group work, drug and AIDS education, treatment teams, and the harm
reduction model. Chapters address work with specific patient
populations with the dual diagnosis of HIV and chemical dependency
and describe treatment in a variety of modalities, such as
outpatient, residential, or hospital setting. This timely book also
includes helpful background material which introduces the
complexities of work with this population through the story of one
man's struggle with AIDS and alcohol and drug addiction. Counseling
Chemically Dependent People with HIV Illness also describes medical
symptoms and problems of HIV-positive persons which gives
non-medical counselors and therapists a preliminary understanding
of what their patients may be undergoing physiologically. Other
chapters focus on such topics as work with adolescents, short term
group work in hospitals, HIV-infected persons on methadone
maintenance, effective AIDS prevention with active drug users, and
countertransference in professionals working with chemically
dependent HIV clients. One of few books to address specifics of
counseling and therapy with this difficult population, Counseling
Chemically Dependent People with HIV Illness is an extremely
valuable and helpful guide for substance abuse counselors,
certified alcoholism counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, and
social workers working in the chemical dependency field.
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