AIDS and People with Severe Mental Illness A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals

Name: AIDS and People with Severe Mental Illness A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals
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ISBN: 9780300067576

ISBN-10: 0300067577

ISBN-13: 9780300067576

Edition: 1996

Authors: Francine Cournos, Nicholas Bakalar

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While HIV spreads among people with severe mental illness for the same reasons as it does in the general population, there are specific ways in which mental illness is associated with elevated HIV risk.

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 9/25/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 360
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Preface


Epidemiology of HIV


Sexual and Drug-Use Risk Behavior


Risk Behavior Assessment


Psychiatric and Neuropsychiatric Manifestations


Medical Manifestations


Pre- and Post-HIV Test Counseling


Risk Reduction Strategies


Cognitive-Behavioral Risk Reduction Groups for Teaching Safer Sex


A Drop-In Center Model of Risk Reduction


Working with HIV-Infected People


Working with Dually Diagnosed Patients


Working with Homeless Mentally Ill Men


Management of HIV/AIDS in Forensic Settings


Training Programs for Staff


An Overview of Legal Issues


Health Care Workers and the HIV Epidemic


HIV Case Definition: Essentials of the 1993 Revised Classification System for HIV Infection and Expanded Surveillance Case Definition for AIDS among Adolescents and Adults


The Epidemiology of HIV Infection and AIDS


Universal Precautions: Essentials of the CDC Recommendations for Universal Precautions


Tuberculosis: Essentials of the CDC Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Tuberculosis in Health Care Settings


Occupational Exposure: Essentials of the CDC Guidelines for the Management of Occupational Exposure to HIV


The Prevention of the Sexual Transmission of HIV


Testing Services: Recommendations for HIV Testing Services for Inpatients and Outpatients in Acute Care Hospital Settings


Western Blot Assay: Interpretation and Use of the Western Blot Assay for Serodiagnosis of HIV Type 1 Infections


Commonly Asked Questions


Glossary


List of Contributors


Index