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Book SynopsisThis text comprises specific counselling approaches to help HIV positive people live with their illness. Also discussed is familiarity with specific techniques to treat AIDS clients experiencing substance abuse problems, personality disorders, and other dual diagnoses.
Trade Review"This practical and state-of-the-art compAndium is a rich resourcethat should be a ?must read' for every health professional workingin the field of HIV.... The book is bound to instantaneously becomethe standard against which other books in the field will bejudged." (Michael Shernoff, editor of The Second Decade of AIDS: AMental Health Practice Handbook and Counseling Chemically DependentPeople with HIV Illness)
"This is a startling book which eloquently presents insight andguidance on all levels of counseling around HIV issues....Thorough, articulate, practical, and shows a depth of understandingwhich can only emerge at the confluence of excellent academia andextensive experience." (Lorraine Sherr, Churchill Fellow, RoyalFree Hospital School of Medicine, University College London MedicalSchool)
"This volume is authored and compiled by some of the mostexperienced and thoughtful authorities in the field. In itsdetailed consideration of the behavioral aspects of thetransmission and the mental health consequences of HIV infection,this volume provides an invaluable and welcome resource." (RichardW. Price, chief, neurology service, San Francisco General Hospitaland professor of neurology, University of California San Francisco)
Table of ContentsPart I: Risk and Behavior: Helping Clients Remain Uninfected.
1. Harm Reduction and Client-Centered Counseling.
2. Counseling and Testing: Behavior Change and Mental Health.
3. Behavior Change Theory and HIV Prevention.
4. Moral and Psychological Development.
5. Prevention and Culture: Working Downhill to Change HIV RiskBehavior.
6. Substance Use Case Management and Harm Reduction Guide.
Part II: Transformation and Psychotherapy: Helping Clients Livewith HIV.
7. Disease as an Agent of Transformation: A Survey of PsychologicalApproaches.
8. The Role of Psychotherapy in Coping the HIV Disease.
9. HIV Disease over the Long Haul: Hope, Uncertainty, andSurvival.
10. Beyond Stereotypes: Stigmas and the Counseling Process.
Part III: Distress and Disorder: Helping Clients with PsychiatricConditions.
11. Anxiety and Depression: Mood and HIV Disease.
12. The Clinical Management of AIDS Bereavement.
13. Personality Disorders and HIV Disease: The Case of theBorderline Client.
14. The Wild Care of Triple Diagnosis: HIV, Mental Illness, andSubstance Abuse.
15. The Diagnosis and Management of HIV-Related Organic MentalDisorders.
Part IV: Therapeutic Practice and Countertransference: PersonalChallenges for Therapists.
16. Present in the Balance of Time: The Therapist'sChallenge.
17. Making Difficult Decisions: Suicide and AIDS.
18. Multiple Loss and the Grief of Working in the Epidemic.
