While HIV spreads among people with severe mental illness for the same reasons it does in the general population, there are specific ways in which mental illness is associated with elevated HIV risk. Every mental health institution or program now has to deal with the consequences of increased HIV rates, but until now there has been no single book that could tell them how to do so. AIDS and People with Severe Mental Illness covers the entire range of information essential for those who deal with these patients: epidemiological, medical, psychological, legal, ethical, and policy issues...
While HIV spreads among people with severe mental illness for the same reasons it does in the general population, there are specific ways in which men...
By the time she was eleven years old, Francine Cournos was robbed of her parents by a pair of tragic deaths. Placed in foster care by relatives too disinterested to bother with her, she drew strength from the indelible example of her mother's courage in the face of breast cancer. Yet the orphaned child within her would play an equally profound role in shaping the exceptional woman she was to become.
In this unforgettable memoir, Francine Cournos tells the story of her transformation from the little girl whom nobody wanted into a successful, happy adult. In vivid, poignant detail, she...
By the time she was eleven years old, Francine Cournos was robbed of her parents by a pair of tragic deaths. Placed in foster care by relatives too di...
