What Mental Health Practioners Need to Know about HIV and AIDS: New Directions for Mental Health Services, Number 87 (J-B MHS Single Issue Mental Health Services)

This volume of New Directions for Mental Health Services provides mental health practitioners with an update on the full range of issues that arise in the treatment of patients with HIV and AIDS-from psychotherapy and coping strategies to the critical areas of diagnosis and adherence to treatment. The contributors describe the clinical care program at the Denver Health Medical Center revealing how this program can be used as a model to help practitioners reach out to disenfranchised populations more effectively and maximize adherence to treatment. They also examine effective sexual behavior change programs, highlighting useful strategies for the prevention of HIV infection. In addition, this issue presents the Family Center in New York City as a model program that effectively serves both parents and childrenaffected by HIV and AIDS and shows how practitioners can enhance their own programs.What Mental Health Practioners Need to Know about HIV and AIDS: New Directions for Mental Health Services, Number 87 (J-B MHS Single Issue Mental Health Services), 1 was published 2000 under ISBN 9780787914363 and ISBN 0787914363.