What to Do about AIDS

Physicians and Mental Health Professionals Discuss the Issues

Leon McKusick

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Jahr: 2023
• ISBN:
  9780520326705
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Medicine
• Thema: AIDS & HIV

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Editor’s Preface
• 1 Introduction: What We Have Learned
• 2 Issues of the Medical Treatment of AIDS Relevant to Mental Health Practitioners
• 3 Questions from Mental Health Practitioners About AIDS
• 4 Neuropsychiatric Syndromes in AIDS and AIDS-Related Illnesses
• 5 The Role of Psychiatry: Evaluation and Treatment of the Altered Mental Status in Persons with AIDS
• 6 Medicine and the Psychology of Treating the Terminally Ill
• 7 The Impact of AIDS on the Physician
• 8 Psychosocial Challenges of AIDS and ARC: Clinical and Research Observations
• 9 Treatment Issues Concerning Persons with AIDS
• 10 Impact of Risk Reduction on Mental Health
• 11 Counseling HIV Seropositives
• 12 Mental Health Issues of Persons with AIDS
• 13 Therapy for Life, Therapy for Death
• 14 Reflections on Archetypal Aspects of AIDS and a Psychology of Gay Men
• 15 Women and AIDS
• 16 Substance Abuse as a Cofactor for AIDS
• 17 Counseling Survivors
• 18 Psychosocial Sensitivity in Hospital Care: San Francisco General Hospital
• 19 Coordinated Community-Based AIDS Treatment
• 20 AIDS: Public Policy and Mental Health Issues
• INDEX