Overview

The Handbook of AIDS Psychiatry is a practical guide for AIDS psychiatrists and other mental health professionals as well as for other clinicians who work with persons with HIV and AIDS and a companion book to the Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry (Cohen and Gorman, 2008). The Handbook provides insights into the dynamics of adherence to risk reduction and medical care in persons with HIV and AIDS as well as strategies to improve adherence using a biopsychosocial approach.Psychiatric disorders can accelerate the spread of the virus by creating barriers to risk reduction. Risky sexual behaviors and sharing of needles in intravenous drug users account for the majority of new cases each year. Delirium, dementia, depression, substance dependence, PTSD, and other psychiatric disorders complicate the course and add considerably to the pain and suffering of persons with AIDS. HIV infection and AIDS also are risk factors for suicide, and the rate of suicide has been shown to be higher in persons with AIDS. Psychiatric care can help prevent HIV transmission through recognition and treatment of substance-related disorders, dementia, and mood disorders such as mania. Comprehensive, coordinated care by a multidisciplinary AIDS team, including AIDS psychiatrists, can provide a biopsychosocial approach that is supportive to patients, families, and clinicians. Psychiatric interventions are valuable in every phase of infection, from identification of risk behaviors to anticipation about HIV testing; from exposure and initial infection to confirmation with a positive HIV antibody test; from entry into systems of care to managing complex antiretroviral regimen; from healthy seropositive to onset of first AIDS-related illness; from late stage AIDS to end-stage AIDS and death.There is no comprehensive handbook of AIDS psychiatry to guide clinicians in providing much needed care. The Handbook of AIDS Psychiatry is a practical pocket guide that provides protocols for the recognition and treatment of the psychiatric disorders most prevalent in persons with AIDS and most relevant for primary physicians, infectious disease specialists, and other caregivers because of their impact on health, adherence, behavior, and quality of life.

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Author:   Mary Ann Cohen ,  Harold Goforth ,  Joseph Lux ,  Sharon Batista
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.40cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 15.70cm
Weight:   0.703kg
ISBN:  

9780195372571

ISBN 10:   0195372573
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   27 May 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Authors 1. Settings and Models of AIDS Psychiatric Care Mary Ann Cohen, Harold W. Goforth, Sami Khalife 2. Comprehensive AIDS Psychiatric Assessment - A Biopsychosocial Approach Mary Ann Cohen, Sharon M. Batista, Joseph Z. Lux 3. HIV through the Life Cycle Mary Ann Cohen, Sharon M. Batista, Jocelyn Soffer 4. Stigma of HIV and AIDS - Psychiatric Aspects Sami Khalife, Jocelyn Soffer, Mary Ann Cohen 5. Strategies for Primary and Secondary Prevention Sami Khalife, Mary Ann Cohen, Harold W. Goforth 6. Diagnosis of Psychiatric Disorders Sharon M. Batista, Harold W. Goforth, Mary Ann Cohen 7. Psychopharmacologic Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders Kelly L. Cozza, Harold W. Goforth, Sharon M. Batista 8. Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders Jocelyn Soffer, Mary Ann Cohen 9. Symptoms Associated with HIV and AIDS Harold W. Goforth, Mary Ann Cohen 10. HIV, AIDS, and Medical Comorbid Illnesses Joseph Z. Lux, Harold W. Goforth 11. Biopsychosocial Approach to Treatment Mary Ann Cohen, Harold W. Goforth 12. AIDS Palliative Psychiatry Mary Ann Cohen, Joseph Z. Lux, Harold W. Goforth, Sami Khalife 13. Ethical Aspects of AIDS Psychiatry Mary Ann Cohen, Sharon M. Batista 14. Resources for Persons with AIDS and their Caregivers Sharon M. Batista, Kelly L. Cozza

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<br> This is truly a comprehensive overview of all of the major topics that are important in the psychiatric treatment of HIV/AIDS patients. --Doody's<p><br> This is truly a comprehensive overview of all of the major topics that are important in the psychiatric treatment of HIV/AIDS patients. --Doody's<p><br> This textbook is unusually strong, both in the writing and the organization of the material...The writing is at a very scholarly level, with plenty of clinical examples which sharpen the insights offered in the text...It receives my unreserved endorsement. Having completed by studying for the Psychosomatic Medicine Boards several years ago, I am sorry that this textbook was not yet available to me as a resource, and I will be looking for the later editions as they emerge. --Sherry Kalz-Barnot in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry<p><br> The publication of Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry by Cohen and Gorman denotes the coming of age of

Author Information

Mary Ann Cohen, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.P.M, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Voluntary Attending Psychiatrist; Former Director AIDS Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York Harold W. Goforth, M.D., F.A.P.M., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina; Co-director, Consultation Psychiatry Service and Attending Physician, GRECC--Division of Palliative Medicine; Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Durham, North Carolina Joseph Z. Lux, M.D., Attending Psychiatrist, Division of Consultation-Liaison Psychiaty, Bellevue Hospital Center, New York, New York Sharon M. Batista, M.D., Chief Resident, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York Sami Khalife, M.D., Attending Psychiatrist, Intensive Psychiatric Service, Manhattan Psychiatric Center, New York, New York Kelly L. Cozza, M.D., F.A.P.M., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland; Consultant, Department of Psychiatry, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C. Jocelyn Soffer, M.D., Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Resident, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University; Clinical Instructor, New York University Child Study Center, New York, New York

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