HIV and Community Mental Healthcare

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Michael D. Knox, Caroline H. Sparks
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998 - Health & Fitness - 300 pages

The first book on the unique contributions to prevention and treatment that community mental healthcare workers may make to persons affected by HIV.

HIV/AIDS affects people psychologically like no other disease. HIV-infected persons can experience a wide range of psychological and neuropsychological problems that require mental health treatment. At times, their family, friends, and healthcare workers may need mental health services. People at risk of infection may also benefit from mental health intervention. In HIV and Community Mental Healthcare, Michael D. Knox and Caroline H. Sparks bring together a distinguished group of contributors in the first book on the unique contributions to prevention and treatment that community mental healthcare workers may make to persons affected by HIV.

The authors begin by discussing basic aspects of HIV disease with which mental health clinicians need to be familiar, such as epidemiology, law, ethics, detection, and transmission. They then address mental health interventions for stress, depression, and suicide. Special topics include women and HIV, multicultural issues, mental illness, and drug abuse. HIV and Community Mental Healthcare is an interdisciplinary handbook for practitioners as well as a course textbook for students. The book will be of interest to mental healthcare professionals, including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, and counselors. It is intended to help this audience improve their ability to care for persons affected by HIV and AIDS.

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Contents

The Etiology and Epidemiology of HIV Disease
19
HIV and the Law
37
The Clinicians Role in Early Detection of HIV
63
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About the author (1998)

Michael D. Knox is professor of community mental health and professor of medicine at the University of South Florida and director of the U.S.F. Center for HIV Education and Research. Caroline H. Sparks is assistant research professor in the Department of Prevention and Community Health at the School of Public Health, George Washington University.

Bibliographic information

TitleHIV and Community Mental Healthcare
EditorsMichael D. Knox, Caroline H. Sparks
PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press, 1998
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedAug 28, 2007
ISBN0801858038, 9780801858031
Length300 pages
Subjects › 

Health & Fitness / General
Medical / AIDS & HIV
Psychology / General
Psychology / Mental Health
  
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