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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.
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