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Psychiatric Aspects of HIV/AIDS

Author: Francisco Fernandez

This comprehensive text focuses on psychiatric issues associated with HIV/AIDS and provides clinicians with a basic understanding of epidemiology, virology, transmission, and medical treatments inclusive of occupational exposures. Psychosocial, spiritual, and sociocultural aspects of HIV/AIDS are covered, describing implications of HIV/AIDS across minority groups. The treatment section allows clinicians to organize an effective psychiatric treatment plan for all mental disorders associated with HIV/AIDS. Issues of adherence, prevention, and public well-being are emphasized throughout. The management of medical problems such as delirium, dementia, and pain management in special HIV/AIDS patients with co-morbid substance abuse as well as end of life care is also included.

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Reviewer: Michael J. Schrift, DO(University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)
Description: This is an outstanding, comprehensive new book covering HIV/AIDS all the way from the molecular level to public policy regarding the psychiatric problems encountered in this patient group. Written and edited by internationally recognized clinician-scientists in the HIV/AIDS field, this book is essential reading for all those involved in the care of patients with HIV/AIDS.
Purpose: The purpose, according to the editors, is to "bridge existing gaps in knowledge and communication among clinicians working in HIV/AIDS and others who are concerned with the psychological, social, cultural, spiritual, psychiatric, and neurobehavioral complications of HIV infection and AIDS." The editors and chapter authors have succeeded in creating an excellent multidisciplinary volume that will be the benchmark for all books in this area.
Audience: The intended audience includes psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, primary care physicians, infectious disease specialists, bioethicists, and policymakers.
Features: The first of the book's seven sections provides the basics: epidemiology, the biology of HIV/AIDS, and medical treatments. Section 2 reviews diagnostic tools in assessing the psychopathology, including psychiatric assessment, psychological/neuropsychological testing, and electrophysiology. Psychiatric comorbidity, which is a significant complicating factor in diagnosis and treatment, is covered in section 3. This is followed by a section on medical comorbidity, which is another complicating factor, and contains informativechapters on drug interactions, pain syndromes, and STD. Section 5 focuses on specific populations and the special problems encountered with chapters on Hispanic Americans, African Americans, Asian and Pacific Islander Americans, American Indians and Alaskan Natives, neonates and infants, children and adolescents, older adults, women, the gay and lesbian population, the homeless, prisoners, and the patient's family. Section 6 addresses such issues as ethical, forensic, and legal problems, religious and spiritual issues, psychotherapy, alternative medicine, suicide, and terminal care issues. The concluding section targets prevention and educational strategies and the difficult issues of physician assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia. Each chapter ends with pertinent and timely references.
Assessment: This is an important book for all to read since HIV/AIDS directly and indirectly affects everybody.



Table of Contents:

BACKGROUND: Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS and its Clinical Implications, Margarita Alegria, Doriliz Vila, Sarah Train, Sandra Williams and Nabila El-Bassel / Virology, Immunology, Transmission, and Disease Stage, Karl Goodkin / Medical Treatment and Occupational Exposure, John Levenson and Ellen Morrison

DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS: Psychiatric Assessment, Mary Alice O'Dowd / Psychological and Neuropsychological Testing, Joel Levy / Electrophysiology of HIV Disease, Harold W. Goforth and Lukasz Konopka

PSYCHIATRIC COMORBIDITY: The Meaning of HIV-Related Illness: Psychological and Adjustment Reactions, Vicenzio Holder-Perkins and Jeffrey S. Akman / Stress-Distress Spectrum and Adjustment Disorders, Dimitri Markov, Elisabeth J. S. Kunkel and Howard Field / Anxiety Disorders, Annette Matthews / Clinical Management of Mood Disorders Among HIV/AIDS Patients, Pedro Ruiz / Personality Disorder and HIV Infection, Khenu Singh and Herb Ochitill / Cognitive Disorders in HIV/AIDS, Angela McBride and Francisco Fernandez / Psychotic Disorders Associated with HIV/AIDS, Ewald Horwath and Francine Cournos / Substance Use Disorders, Steve Ferrando / Sleep Disorders in HIV/AIDS, Carlos A. Santana and Francisco Fernandez

MEDICAL COMORBIDITY: Psychotropic Drug Interactions with Antiretroviral Medications, Philip A. Bialer, Kyle Kato and Vassilios Latoussakis / Pain Syndromes, William Breitbart / Sexually Transmitted Infections in HIV/AIDS, Angela Stotts, Mark Evans, Shelly L. Sayre and Katherine A. McQueen / Psychiatric Diagnosis and Treatment of Medically Hospitalized HIV/AIDS Patients, Stephen J. Ferrando and Constantine G. Lyketsos

SPECIAL POPULATIONS: HIV/AIDS Among Hispanic Americans, Pedro Ruiz and Frank Fernandez / HIV/AIDS Among African Americans, William Lawson / HIV/AIDS Among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans, Lynette J. Menezes, Todd Wills and Karina D'Souza / HIV/AIDS Among American Indians and Alaskan Natives, Carol E. Kaufman, Janette Beals, Sara Jumping Eagle and Christina M. Mitchell / Neonatal and Infant HIV/AIDS, Andrea Stolar and Johanna Goldfarb / HIV/AIDS Among Children and Adolescents, Andres J. Pumariega, Margaret Shugart and JoAnne B. Pumariega / Psychiatric Aspects of HIV/AIDS Among Older Adults, Maria Llorente and Julie Malphurs / HIV/AIDS Among Women, Isabel T. Lagomasino and Gustavo Rodriguez / HIV/Psychiatry Among Men Who Have Sex with Men, Milton L. Wainberg and Kenneth Ashley / HIV/AIDS Among Women Who Have Sex with Women, Alison R. Jones and Cynthia L. Hoyler / HIV/AIDS Among the Homeless, Jacqueline Maus Feldman and Stephen M. Goldfinger / HIV/AIDS Among Prisoners, Wade Myers / HIV/AIDS and the Patients' Family, James L. Griffith and Michael Golder

SPECIAL ISSUES: Ethical, Forensic, and Legal Considerations, James Satriano / Religious and Spiritual Considerations in HIV and AIDS, Daniel Hicks and Francis G. Lu / Psychotherapy Strategies for People with HIV Infection and AIDS, Claire Zilber / Complementary and Alternative Medicine and AIDS/HIV, Janet Konefal / Biopsychosocial Aspects of Living with HIV/AIDS: Implications for Disease Progression and Psychoneuroimmunology, Cheryl Gore-Felton, Cheryl Koopman and David Spiegel / Suicide and End-of-Life Care, Mary Ann Cohen

POLICY ISSUES: AIDS Prevention: The Clinician's Role, Michael Knox and Tiffany Chenneville / Physician Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Euthansia in HIV Infected Patients, Marshall Forstein

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