Understanding AIDS : advances in research and treatment

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Understanding AIDS : advances in research and treatment

Seth C. Kalichman

America Psychological Association, c1998

2nd ed

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-412) and indexes

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Volume

: hbk ISBN 9781557985293

Description

This volume, first released in 1996, was written to provide mental health professionals with a single source of information on the medical, social and psychological aspects of HIV-AIDS. It remains the only authored book concerning the psychology of AIDS that is thoroughly grounded in the empirical literature. With this extensively revised second edition, author Seth C. Kalichman explains the many significant advances in research on how the virus works and on immune responses to HIV, and he discusses the revolutionary treatments for HIV infection that have increased both life-span and quality of life for increasingly large numbers of patients living with HIV-positive and AIDS diagnoses. Kalichman also focuses impressive attention on new insights regarding psychological reactions to HIV-AIDS, coping and adjusting, and psychological treatments as well as slowly growing literature on women, children and minorities with AIDS and on sexual adjustment after diagnosis.

Table of Contents

  • The HIV-AIDS Pandemic
  • Clinical Course and Manifestations
  • Medical Treatments
  • Psychological Sequelae
  • Neuropsychological Sequelae
  • Social Sequelae
  • Sexual Adjustment
  • Coping, Adjustment, and Social Support
  • Counselling and Psychotherapy
  • References
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9781557985309

Description

"Understanding AIDS", first published in 1995, was written to provide mental health professionals with a single source of information on the medical, social and psychological aspects of HIV-AIDS. It covers a broad range of topics concerning the psychology of AIDS that is thoroughly grounded in the empirical literature. With this extensively revised second edition, author Seth C. Kalichman explains the many significant advances in research on how the virus works and on immune responses to HIV, and discusses the revolutionary treatments for HIV infection that have increased both span and quality of life for increasingly large numbers of patients living with HIV-positive and AIDS diagnosis. Kalichman also focuses attention on the growth in knowledge about such issues as psychological reactions to HIV-AIDS, coping and adjustment, and psychological treatments. New coverage turns a light onto the growing literature on women, children and minorities with AIDS and on sexual adjustment after diagnosis. Almost half the information in this edition is entirely new or updated. Each of the three main sections of the book have been rewritten and brought up to date. Over 100 new citations to the literature appearing between 1995 and 1998 have been added, as have new chapters on sexual adjustment and on advances in medical treatments (including treatment adherence). Finally, the glossary and all informational resource materials have been updated.

Table of Contents

  • The HIV-AIDS Pandemic
  • Clinical Course and Manifestations
  • Medical Treatments
  • Psychological Sequelae
  • Neuropsychological Sequelae
  • Social Sequelae
  • Sexual Adjustment
  • Coping, Adjustment and Social Support
  • Counselling and Psychotherapy.

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