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Make sure every child gets a chance to be heard HIV, Substance
Abuse and Communication Disorders in Children examines the language
problems of young children from special populations. Essential as a
textbook for graduate and upper-level undergraduate studies and as
a reference resource, this unique book presents up-to-date research
and compelling case studies that illustrate how prenatal exposure
to drugs, alcohol, and HIV can affect a child in utero and continue
to handicap its development after birth. Each chapter includes
discussion threads and review questions to promote critical
thinking and clinical problem-solving skills in the classroom. HIV,
Substance Abuse and Communication Disorders in Children looks at
the negative impact a mother's lifestyle practices can have on her
developing child with a nod toward the significant prevalence of
HIV and substance abuse in today's society. Some estimates place
the number of infants born after prenatal exposure to illicit drugs
as three-quarters of a millionevery year. When alcohol is added,
the figure rises to more than 1 million. This powerful book focuses
specifically on the serious consequences of alcohol, marijuana,
cocaine, and crack cocaine abuse, including poor language
development and speech delays, limited vocabulary, the inability to
make their needs known, poor articulation, the inability to follow
commands, limited expressive language skills, and the inability to
understand the real meaning of words and generalize them. And of
the nearly 5,000 children in the United States living with AIDS,
almost all will struggle with speech production and communication
disorders as the disease affects their brain, spinal cord, and
central nervous system. HIV, Substance Abuse and Communication
Disorders in Children examines: the effect of drugs on the brain
pregnancy and drug use trends common drugs of abuse Kosakoff's
syndrome fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) among Native Americans and
African Americans neurologic sequellae speech and language
intervention rehabilitation considerations treatment and family
counseling and much more HIV, Substance Abuse and Communication
Disorders in Children is essential for graduate and undergraduate
students working with language disorders in special populations.
Make sure every child gets a chance to be heard HIV, Substance
Abuse and Communication Disorders in Children examines the language
problems of young children from special populations. Essential as a
textbook for graduate and upper-level undergraduate studies and as
a reference resource, this unique book presents up-to-date research
and compelling case studies that illustrate how prenatal exposure
to drugs, alcohol, and HIV can affect a child in utero and continue
to handicap its development after birth. Each chapter includes
discussion threads and review questions to promote critical
thinking and clinical problem-solving skills in the classroom. HIV,
Substance Abuse and Communication Disorders in Children looks at
the negative impact a mother's lifestyle practices can have on her
developing child with a nod toward the significant prevalence of
HIV and substance abuse in today's society. Some estimates place
the number of infants born after prenatal exposure to illicit drugs
as three-quarters of a millionevery year. When alcohol is added,
the figure rises to more than 1 million. This powerful book focuses
specifically on the serious consequences of alcohol, marijuana,
cocaine, and crack cocaine abuse, including poor language
development and speech delays, limited vocabulary, the inability to
make their needs known, poor articulation, the inability to follow
commands, limited expressive language skills, and the inability to
understand the real meaning of words and generalize them. And of
the nearly 5,000 children in the United States living with AIDS,
almost all will struggle with speech production and communication
disorders as the disease affects their brain, spinal cord, and
central nervous system. HIV, Substance Abuse and Communication
Disorders in Children examines: the effect of drugs on the brain
pregnancy and drug use trends common drugs of abuse Kosakoff's
syndrome fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) among Native Americans and
African Americans neurologic sequellae speech and language
intervention rehabilitation considerations treatment and family
counseling and much more HIV, Substance Abuse and Communication
Disorders in Children is essential for graduate and undergraduate
students working with language disorders in special populations.
Learn how to create professional collaboration between HIV/AIDS
researchers and community organizations for the benefit of all!
This book is designed to help frontline prevention organizations
answer two questions that are of utmost importance. First, how
effective are their services; and second, can their work be
improved? The absence of rigorous evaluation is a barrier to stable
funding for community organizations, and the strategies in
Preventing AIDS: Community-Science Collaborations can help overcome
that barrier. The book is a guide to successful cooperative efforts
between researchers and community-based organizations. The
information it presents will help community-based programs acquire
detailed, timely information on program effectiveness and outcomes.
It also provides researchers with methods for accessing
hard-to-reach or hidden HIV high-risk groups. Handy tables and
figures make important data easy to access and understand. In
Preventing AIDS: Community-Science Collaborations, you'll learn
about the difficult but critically important collaboration between
community organizations who do frontline prevention work and
university scientists who evaluate the effectiveness of that work.
The book describes the community-researcher equal partner
collaboration (CREPC) model for community-based collaborative
research. In addition, it examines six unique efforts to prevent
the spread of AIDS among high-risk populations, such as
prostitutes, injection drug users, impoverished pregnant women,
migrant workers, transgendered persons, and prison inmates. The
case studies in Preventing AIDS: Community-Science Collaborations
describe the frustrations of outreach workers and counselors who
suddenly must help design a survey they fear will be intrusive, and
the parallel problems faced by scientists who are told that their
traditional measures mean little to outreach workers. Preventing
AIDS: Community-Science Collaborations presents funders'
perspectives on collaborative AIDS research and examines the
collaborative and funding aspects of: the CAL-PEP prevention
programs for drug injectors and sex workers efforts to promote HIV
prevention for migrant farm workers and evaluate those efforts'
effectiveness the ongoing collaboration between The Center for AIDS
Prevention Studies (University of California, San Francisco),
Centerforce (a statewide nonprofit agency providing services and
advocacy to prisoners and their families), and San Quentin State
Prison the effort of the Los Angeles County HIV Epidemiology
Program and three community-based organizations, which collaborate
to provide culturally appropriate outreach and HIV
education/prevention services to transgendered individuals of
various ethnic origins San Francisco's PHREDA project and the way
its creators collaborated to better understand and serve high-risk
women The U-Find-Out (UFO) Study, funded by the Universitywide AIDS
Research Program of the State of California
Learn how to create professional collaboration between HIV/AIDS
researchers and community organizations for the benefit of all!
This book is designed to help frontline prevention organizations
answer two questions that are of utmost importance. First, how
effective are their services; and second, can their work be
improved? The absence of rigorous evaluation is a barrier to stable
funding for community organizations, and the strategies in
Preventing AIDS: Community-Science Collaborations can help overcome
that barrier. The book is a guide to successful cooperative efforts
between researchers and community-based organizations. The
information it presents will help community-based programs acquire
detailed, timely information on program effectiveness and outcomes.
It also provides researchers with methods for accessing
hard-to-reach or hidden HIV high-risk groups. Handy tables and
figures make important data easy to access and understand. In
Preventing AIDS: Community-Science Collaborations, you'll learn
about the difficult but critically important collaboration between
community organizations who do frontline prevention work and
university scientists who evaluate the effectiveness of that work.
The book describes the community-researcher equal partner
collaboration (CREPC) model for community-based collaborative
research. In addition, it examines six unique efforts to prevent
the spread of AIDS among high-risk populations, such as
prostitutes, injection drug users, impoverished pregnant women,
migrant workers, transgendered persons, and prison inmates. The
case studies in Preventing AIDS: Community-Science Collaborations
describe the frustrations of outreach workers and counselors who
suddenly must help design a survey they fear will be intrusive, and
the parallel problems faced by scientists who are told that their
traditional measures mean little to outreach workers. Preventing
AIDS: Community-Science Collaborations presents funders'
perspectives on collaborative AIDS research and examines the
collaborative and funding aspects of: the CAL-PEP prevention
programs for drug injectors and sex workers efforts to promote HIV
prevention for migrant farm workers and evaluate those efforts'
effectiveness the ongoing collaboration between The Center for AIDS
Prevention Studies (University of California, San Francisco),
Centerforce (a statewide nonprofit agency providing services and
advocacy to prisoners and their families), and San Quentin State
Prison the effort of the Los Angeles County HIV Epidemiology
Program and three community-based organizations, which collaborate
to provide culturally appropriate outreach and HIV
education/prevention services to transgendered individuals of
various ethnic origins San Francisco's PHREDA project and the way
its creators collaborated to better understand and serve high-risk
women The U-Find-Out (UFO) Study, funded by the Universitywide AIDS
Research Program of the State of California
Improve quality of life for patients with HIV/AIDS! Practice Issues
in HIV/AIDS Services: Empowerment-Based Models and Program
Applications provides a sound framework of intervention practices
for case managers and care coordinators to help HIV/AIDS patients
live longer and healthier lives. This book focuses on client-based
care that addresses the social and psychological needs of the
patient as well as his or her physical and medical requirements.
Filled with concrete information and recommendations from
practitioners and researchers, this instructive text will help
increase the effectiveness of your role in the client's treatment.
Practice Issues in HIV/AIDS Services leads the reader from a
conceptual framework of approaches related to the ongoing HIV/AIDS
crises to specific case studies focused mainly on interventions.
Practice models of case management are discussed and applied to
clients with special needs, including injection drug users, Mexican
migrant farm workers, and African-American underserved populations.
Examples of the practice models discussed in this book include: the
Generalist social work practice modelemphasizing problem-solving at
various system levels through the process of relationship building,
data gathering, assessing, intervening, evaluating interventions,
and terminating services the Broker modelfocusing on activities
which will increase the client's linkage to services, then
terminating the client-case manager relationship the Therapeutic or
Clinical modelestablishing a relationship with the case manager as
a treatment provider with rapport and trust as a therapeutic
intervention the Therapeutic Team Approach or Assertive Community
Treatment (ACT)utilizing multidisciplinary teams to provide a range
of specialty services to clients with the intent to reduce
unnecessary hospitalizations and improve independent functioning in
the community. Well referenced, with dependable methodologies and
sound conclusions, Practice Issues in HIV/AIDS Services is an
essential text for case managers, health professionals, and
educators and students of social work. Its emphasis on special
populations, with new approaches to case management and techniques
to strengthen present ones, makes this book an important addition
to anyone's reference collection.
Explore ways to reduce the rate of HIV infection in street
prostitutes--and the inescapable connection between the heroin
trade, prostitution, and HIV!This unique book draws on face-to-face
interviews that the author conducted on the streets, with
heroin-addicted street prostitutes in Southern California and their
counterparts in four large Mexican cities. Author David James
Bellis illustrates the significant--and surprising--differences in
the risk of exposure to HIV and other STDs that exist between
street prostitutes in the two countries arising from national
differences in the legality, sociology, and economics of sex work.
He points out that Mexican prostitutes, for whom sex work is a
simple means of livelihood, are "choir girls" compared with their
beaten-up, drug-addicted sisters north of the border who perform
sex for drug money and are at much greater risk of HIV and other
diseases, like Hepatitis C. This book explores those differences,
suggesting new directions for United States prostitution and
heroin-control policies--laws currently so interwoven that they
reinforce each other, accounting for a deadly circle of crime and
disease. In addition to the fascinating results of the author's
interviews with 72 female street prostitutes in San Bernardino,
California, and 102 more in Tijuana, Cd. Juarez, Cd. Victoria, and
Cuernavaca regarding their personal sexual, drug, and health
practices, and their criminal histories, Hotel Ritz-Comparing
Mexican and U.S. Street Prostitutes: Factors in HIV/AIDS
Transmission explores: the licensing process for legal prostitutes
in Mexico the medical testing that Mexico requires prostitutes to
undergo the differences in what United States and Mexican
prostitutes know about HIV transmission the difference in condom
use between United States and Mexican prostitutes the potential
benefits of reforming prostitution and drug laws in both countries
the benefits of making methadone maintenence and syringesand
heroinfree for heroin-addicted prostitutes the proportion of United
States/Mexican prostitutes who would quit the trade if they learned
they had AIDS how the social support system in the United States
(housing subsidies, TANF/AFDC money, food stamps, etc.) leads to a
greater proportion of drug-addicted prostitutes than are found in
Mexico Hotel Ritz-Comparing Mexican and U.S. Street Prostitutes:
Factors in HIV/AIDS Transmission also provides you with a look at
the hierarchy of female sex workers, an explanation of the etiology
of AIDS transmission, and a concise history of heroin and
prostitution. Helpful tables and an appendix containing the
author's survey questions make the data in this well-referenced
book easily understandable.
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.
In this guidebook, People With HIV and Those Who Help Them, author
Dennis Shelby uses the reported experiences of HIV-positive men to
chart the course of living with HIV. He offers a consistent
clinical-theoretical framework that encompasses the vast range of
clinical problems clinicians may encounter in their work with
HIV-positive individuals across the span of infection.This book
provides a detailed account of the many psychological
transformations that infected people experience. People With HIV
and Those Who Help Them enables clinicians and students to better
address the problems commonly encountered in clinical practice with
persons with HIV. Clinicians will be able to gain perspective on
the process of knowing one is infected, infected men will see their
process mirrored and validated, and family, friends, and partners
of infected men will gain a greater appreciation for the experience
of their relative, friend, and partner. As clinicians have gained
experience in working with HIV-positive people, they have become
increasingly aware of the complexity of successful clinical
intervention with HIV-related problems. In his book, Shelby "breaks
down" this complex process into its component aspects:
psychological impact of HIV infection the process of adapting to
the knowledge of infection the dynamic process involved with HIV
infection common problems and solutions encountered by infected
people case examples that illustrate the clinical framework
intensive psychotherapy and HIV infectionThe study that is the
basis for this book charts the initial psychological impact and
many changes and transformations of the experience of being
HIV-positive. While infected people are often encouraged to
maintain hopeful outlooks and to think of themselves as living with
HIV rather than dying from it, it is often a long and arduous
process to achieve and maintain this perspective. People With HIV
and Those Who Help Them is a guide to help those with HIV to keep a
positive outlook on life.
Examine the unique emotional challenges and issues that face
couples of mixed HIV status today! Previous books on this
subjectmostly written in the days when HIV/AIDS was considered a
fatal rather than a chronic diseasefocused on end-of-life issues.
However, Couples of Mixed HIV Status: Clinical Issues and
Interventions addresses the unique emotional challenges facing
today's couples of mixed HIV status and provides a conceptual
framework for assessment and intervention. The book offers examples
of how to apply emotionally focused couple therapy to help them
work through issues including disclosure, the fear of HIV
transmission, shifts in emotional intimacy, family planning,
betrayal, mistrust, and uncertainty. This unique work, its
knowledge base, and the interventions you'll find inside, are
applicable to any practitioner who provides couple and family
therapyas well as any practitioner who counsels around issues of
chronic illness. Couples of Mixed HIV Status provides therapists
with a range of theoretical approaches to help mixed HIV status
couples deal with their issues and concerns. It includes
applications of couple therapy approaches that have proved to be
particularly effective as well as case studies that demonstrate how
different relationship variables may affect therapy. The book
presents the findings of a research study involving 44 mixed HIV
status couples in the Northeast and is generously illustrated with
tables that make complex research results easy to access and
understand. Topics covered in Couples of Mixed HIV Status include:
various approaches to couples therapy the historical context of
HIV/AIDS HIV transmission family planning and HIV/AIDS emotionally
focused couple therapy disclosure issues attachment theory and much
more! Couples of Mixed HIV Status: Clinical Issues and
Interventions is a valuable resource for therapists and other
mental health counselors working with today's couples of mixed HIV
status as well as for students of counseling and health related
services. Readers who may be in a mixed HIV status relationship or
those who are friends and family members of couples living with HIV
will also find this book helpful.
Meet the women behind the statistics Women's Experiences with
HIV/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves examines the impact of HIV/AIDS
on women, the fastest-growing subgroup of the HIV-infected
population of the United States. Based on interviews with
HIV-infected women, the book gives voice to their experiences.
These courageous women speak candidly about the impact of illness
on their lives in interviews that highlight key issues pertinent to
living with the infection, including the everyday impact of an HIV
diagnosis and the effect of the disease on women's social and
familial roles. Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS is a powerful and
compelling look at the day-to-day struggles of 37 women infected
with HIV. Their stories detail their ongoing efforts--with varying
degrees of success--to come to grips with the disease as they try
to rebuild their lives. Through qualitative analysis, the book
demonstrates the importance of relational resources, such as AIDS
activism, support groups, and social support. It also addresses
potential problems for women associated with caregiving and
presents ethnographic research findings on the complex factors that
affect women with HIV (socioeconomic status, sexual preference,
lifestyle differences). Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS also
addresses research topics such as: how HIV infection affects a
woman's sense of self how women repair disruption and restore
identities the limits to women's coping strategies and whether
those strategies still work if women become functionally impaired
or develop AIDS how women's structural and social environments
facilitate or impede repair the role of women's informal networks
in biological disruption and repair A rare look at the experience
of women infected with HIV (most studies focus on male samples),
Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS is an invaluable academic
resource as a course supplement in the fields of medical sociology,
women's studies, public health, a
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.
As HIV/AIDS continue to plague societies around the world, more and
more social workers encounter HIV-infected individuals and their
families and friends who are searching for help and support. In HIV
and Social Work: A Practitioner's Guide, experienced social workers
share their practice wisdom, knowledge, and skills on a broad range
of issues. Their words of wisdom will give you the willingness to
follow problems through and the flexibility and creativity that are
required when dealing with issues concerning HIV/AIDS. At the same
time, you will achieve a sense of empowerment and optimism as you
realize that there are things you can do--very specific kinds of
help you can offer--that can make an enormous difference in the
lives of people with HIV/AIDS and those who love and care for them.
HIV and Social Work is a practical, user-friendly resource for
social workers who practice in a variety of settings and fields.
You'll find it a rich and useful book if you're moving into
HIV/AIDS work and want guidance, or if you're experienced and want
to sharpen your skills, or if you just want to be prepared for when
you find people with HIV or their family members in your office in
need of help. Specifically, you'll gain valuable insight about:
basic psychosocial interventions for people with HIV/AIDS in-depth
practical suggestions for specific problem areas and specific
groups of people with HIV/AIDS better listening skills how to know
your own limitations and live your own life more fully in the face
of sadness the importance and challenge of returning to fundamental
social work skills You'll refer to HIV and Social Work time and
time again as you confront new HIV-related situations in your
practice for which you need easy-to-understand descriptions of what
to do and how to do it. Acknowledging your busy schedule, the book
is organized so that you may use it on a "knowledge as needed"
basis or read it straight through. Written specifically by and for
social workers, HIV and Social Work is highly recommended as
required reading in social work programs at the Bachelor's and/or
Master's levels.
In this guidebook, People With HIV and Those Who Help Them, author
Dennis Shelby uses the reported experiences of HIV-positive men to
chart the course of living with HIV. He offers a consistent
clinical-theoretical framework that encompasses the vast range of
clinical problems clinicians may encounter in their work with
HIV-positive individuals across the span of infection.This book
provides a detailed account of the many psychological
transformations that infected people experience. People With HIV
and Those Who Help Them enables clinicians and students to better
address the problems commonly encountered in clinical practice with
persons with HIV. Clinicians will be able to gain perspective on
the process of knowing one is infected, infected men will see their
process mirrored and validated, and family, friends, and partners
of infected men will gain a greater appreciation for the experience
of their relative, friend, and partner. As clinicians have gained
experience in working with HIV-positive people, they have become
increasingly aware of the complexity of successful clinical
intervention with HIV-related problems. In his book, Shelby "breaks
down" this complex process into its component aspects:
psychological impact of HIV infection the process of adapting to
the knowledge of infection the dynamic process involved with HIV
infection common problems and solutions encountered by infected
people case examples that illustrate the clinical framework
intensive psychotherapy and HIV infectionThe study that is the
basis for this book charts the initial psychological impact and
many changes and transformations of the experience of being
HIV-positive. While infected people are often encouraged to
maintain hopeful outlooks and to think of themselves as living with
HIV rather than dying from it, it is often a long and arduous
process to achieve and maintain this perspective. People With HIV
and Those Who Help Them is a guide to help those with HIV to keep a
positive outlook on life.
As HIV/AIDS continue to plague societies around the world, more and
more social workers encounter HIV-infected individuals and their
families and friends who are searching for help and support. In HIV
and Social Work: A Practitioner's Guide, experienced social workers
share their practice wisdom, knowledge, and skills on a broad range
of issues. Their words of wisdom will give you the willingness to
follow problems through and the flexibility and creativity that are
required when dealing with issues concerning HIV/AIDS. At the same
time, you will achieve a sense of empowerment and optimism as you
realize that there are things you can do--very specific kinds of
help you can offer--that can make an enormous difference in the
lives of people with HIV/AIDS and those who love and care for them.
HIV and Social Work is a practical, user-friendly resource for
social workers who practice in a variety of settings and fields.
You'll find it a rich and useful book if you're moving into
HIV/AIDS work and want guidance, or if you're experienced and want
to sharpen your skills, or if you just want to be prepared for when
you find people with HIV or their family members in your office in
need of help. Specifically, you'll gain valuable insight about:
basic psychosocial interventions for people with HIV/AIDS in-depth
practical suggestions for specific problem areas and specific
groups of people with HIV/AIDS better listening skills how to know
your own limitations and live your own life more fully in the face
of sadness the importance and challenge of returning to fundamental
social work skills You'll refer to HIV and Social Work time and
time again as you confront new HIV-related situations in your
practice for which you need easy-to-understand descriptions of what
to do and how to do it. Acknowledging your busy schedule, the book
is organized so that you may use it on a "knowledge as needed"
basis or read it straight through. Written specifically by and for
social workers, HIV and Social Work is highly recommended as
required reading in social work programs at the Bachelor's and/or
Master's levels.
Examine the unique emotional challenges and issues that face
couples of mixed HIV status today! Previous books on this
subjectmostly written in the days when HIV/AIDS was considered a
fatal rather than a chronic diseasefocused on end-of-life issues.
However, Couples of Mixed HIV Status: Clinical Issues and
Interventions addresses the unique emotional challenges facing
today's couples of mixed HIV status and provides a conceptual
framework for assessment and intervention. The book offers examples
of how to apply emotionally focused couple therapy to help them
work through issues including disclosure, the fear of HIV
transmission, shifts in emotional intimacy, family planning,
betrayal, mistrust, and uncertainty. This unique work, its
knowledge base, and the interventions you'll find inside, are
applicable to any practitioner who provides couple and family
therapyas well as any practitioner who counsels around issues of
chronic illness. Couples of Mixed HIV Status provides therapists
with a range of theoretical approaches to help mixed HIV status
couples deal with their issues and concerns. It includes
applications of couple therapy approaches that have proved to be
particularly effective as well as case studies that demonstrate how
different relationship variables may affect therapy. The book
presents the findings of a research study involving 44 mixed HIV
status couples in the Northeast and is generously illustrated with
tables that make complex research results easy to access and
understand. Topics covered in Couples of Mixed HIV Status include:
various approaches to couples therapy the historical context of
HIV/AIDS HIV transmission family planning and HIV/AIDS emotionally
focused couple therapy disclosure issues attachment theory and much
more! Couples of Mixed HIV Status: Clinical Issues and
Interventions is a valuable resource for therapists and other
mental health counselors working with today's couples of mixed HIV
status as well as for students of counseling and health related
services. Readers who may be in a mixed HIV status relationship or
those who are friends and family members of couples living with HIV
will also find this book helpful.
Meet the women behind the statistics Women's Experiences with
HIV/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves examines the impact of HIV/AIDS
on women, the fastest-growing subgroup of the HIV-infected
population of the United States. Based on interviews with
HIV-infected women, the book gives voice to their experiences.
These courageous women speak candidly about the impact of illness
on their lives in interviews that highlight key issues pertinent to
living with the infection, including the everyday impact of an HIV
diagnosis and the effect of the disease on women's social and
familial roles. Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS is a powerful and
compelling look at the day-to-day struggles of 37 women infected
with HIV. Their stories detail their ongoing efforts--with varying
degrees of success--to come to grips with the disease as they try
to rebuild their lives. Through qualitative analysis, the book
demonstrates the importance of relational resources, such as AIDS
activism, support groups, and social support. It also addresses
potential problems for women associated with caregiving and
presents ethnographic research findings on the complex factors that
affect women with HIV (socioeconomic status, sexual preference,
lifestyle differences). Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS also
addresses research topics such as: how HIV infection affects a
woman's sense of self how women repair disruption and restore
identities the limits to women's coping strategies and whether
those strategies still work if women become functionally impaired
or develop AIDS how women's structural and social environments
facilitate or impede repair the role of women's informal networks
in biological disruption and repair A rare look at the experience
of women infected with HIV (most studies focus on male samples),
Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS is an invaluable academic
resource as a course supplement in the fields of medical sociology,
women's studies, public health, a
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