AIDS & Mental Health Practice:

Clinical and Policy Issues

Published in 1999 by Haworth Press

















Table of Contents

Introduction

Michael Shernoff

CLINICAL ISSUES

The Role of Mental Health Professionals in Medical Decision Making Regarding Protease Inhibitors

Darrell P. Wheeler, PhD

Michael Shernoff, MSW

Intrapsychic and Systemic

Issues Concerning Returning

to Work for People Living with

HIV/AIDS

Michael Bettinger, PhD

An Exploration of Change:

The Influence of Combination

Therapies on PWA Support

Groups

Mark Thomas, PhD

Telephone Support Groups for HIV-Positive Bereaved Mothers of Young Children

Lori Weiner, PhD

HIV Prevention, Women, and the Kitchen Sink Model

Annette "Chi" Hughes, MSW

Losing Lawrence: The Death of a Child in a Residential Child Welfare Facility

Gerald Mallon, PhD

A Question of Survival: Issues in Counseling Homeless Persons with HIV

Ken Howard, MSW

Support Groups for HlV-Negative Gay Men

Steven Ball, MSW

Finding Their Voices in Group: HIV-Negative Gay Men Speak

Carl Locke, MSW

Spiritual Issues and HIV/AIDS in the Latino Community

Eduardo J. Baez, MSW

HIV/AIDS Mental Health Services to Black Men

Darrell P. Wheeler, PhD

Dale V. Miller, BA

In the Eye of the Hurricane: Clinical Issues for HIV-Positive Slow and Nonprogressors from a Self-Psychology Perspective

James Cassese, MSW

HIV Care for Male-to-Female Pre-Operative Transsexuals

James Grimaldi, MSW

Internalized Homophobia in the Psychotherapy of Gay Men with HIV/AIDS

Maria R. Derevenco, PsyD

Ronald J. Frederick, PhD

Dying Well: Counseling End Stage Clients With AIDS

Michael Shernoff, MSW

Psychotherapy, Counseling, and Self-Deliverance

Michael E. Holtby, LCSW

"Story Telling" In a Bereavement Support Group For Pediatric HIV/AIDS Case Managers of the Brooklyn Pediatric AIDS Network

David Strug, Ph.D

Craig Podell, LCSW

Martine Cesaire, CSW

Roy Ferdinand, BA, CSAC

Hillary Kallor, CSW

Dorothy Moore, CSW

Josephine Walker, BA

Social Work With Hospitalized AIDS Patients: Observations from the Front Lines of an Inner City Hospital

Barbara Halin-Willinger, CSW

Martha Powers, CSW

Chris Carlson, CSW

Lorna Lee, CSW

Mary Beaudet, CSW

Miriam Bernson, CSW

John Kleinschmidt, CSW

African American Women Still Remain Invisible: Are Mental Health Professionals Doing Enough? Clinical Cultural Competence Issues

Ednita Wright, Ph.D

Evelyn Blackburn, MSW

Susan Taylor-Brown, MSW, Ph.D

Reflections from the Field: Looking Beyond the Behavior - To See the Need: A Case Study

Patricia A. Stewart, MSS

Entrusted With Secrets - Working With Immigrants With HIV

Hank Flacks, MSW

Couples of Mixed HIV Status: Therapeutic and Policy Issues

Robert H. Remien, PhD

Raymond A. Smith, Ma

HIV-Associated Cognitive/ Motor Complex: Early Detection, Diagnosis, and Intervention

Stephan L. Buckingham, MSSW

Wilfred Van Gorp, PhD

POLICY ISSUES

Identifying and Confronting Racism in AIDS Service Organizations

Larry M. Gant, PhD

The Challenges of HIV/AIDS Education and Training for Social Workers and Other Mental Health Professionals

Arnold H. Grossman, PhD

Models Created in Response to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: The New York Peer AIDS

Education Coalition

Edith Springer, ACSW

HIV, Suicide & Hastened Death

Michael E. Holtby, LCSW

Coming-Out Positive? HIV Prevention for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth

Peter A. Newman, MSW

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