HIV: Issues with Mental Health and Illness

ISBN-13: 9780789034090 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 170 str.

Michael B. Blank; Marlene M. Eisenberg

Opis

HIV: Issues with Mental Health and Illness is a comprehensive examination of the co-morbidity that exists between HIV/AIDS and mental illness. Internationally recognized experts in the field analyze the latest research on why HIV sufferers are at risk of developing mental illness and how people who suffer from mental illness risk contracting HIV through sexual behavior and substance abuse. This unique book focuses on clinical and diagnostic issues, the organization of service delivery systems, and community-based interventions.

Spis treści

• HIV and Mental Illness: Opportunities for Prevention (Michael Blank and Marlene M. Eisenberg)
• Triple Jeopardy for HIV: Substance Using Severely Mentally Ill Adults (Jessy G. Dévieux, Robert Malow, Brenda G. Lerner, Janyce G. Dyer, Ligia Baptista, Barbara Lucenko, and Seth C. Kalichman)
• Symptom Cluster of Fatigue and Depression in HIV/AIDS (Joachim G. Voss, Carmen J. Portillo, William L. Holzemer, and Marylin J. Dodd)
• Emotional Distress in African American Women with HIV (Margaret Shandor Miles, Diane Holditch-Davis, Cort Pedersen, Joseph J. Eron, Jr., and Todd Schwartz)
• Unsafe Sex: Do Feelings Matter? (Celia M. Lescano, Larry K. Brown, Paul M. Miller, and Kristie L. Puster)
• HIV Prevention Services for Adults with Serious Mental Illness in Public Mental Health Care Programs (Eric R. Wright, Dustin E. Wright, and Anthony H. Lawson)
• Differences in HIV-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior Among Psychiatric Outpatients With and Without a History of a Sexually Transmitted Infection (Peter A. Vanable, Michael P. Carey, Kate B. Carey, and Stephen A. Maisto)
• HIV Service Provision for People with Severe Mental Illness in Outpatient Mental Health Care Settings in New York (James Satriano, Karen McKinnon, and Spencer Adoff)
• Schizophrenia, AIDS and the Decision to Prescribe HAART: Results of a National Survey of HIV Clinicians (Seth Himellhoch, Neil R. Powe, William Breakey, and Kelly A. Gebo)
• Community-Level HIV Prevention for Persons with Severe Mental Illness Living in Supportive Housing Programs: A Pilot Intervention Study (Kathleen J. Sikkema, Christina S. Mead, Jhan D. Doughty-Berry, Susan O. Zimmerman, Bret Kloos, and David L. Snow)
• Rapid Assessment of Existing HIV Prevention Programming in a Community Mental Health Center (Phyllis L. Solomon, Julie A. Tennille, David Lipsitt, Ellen Plumb, David Metzger, and Michael B. Blank)
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Michael B. Blank, Marlene M. Eisenberg