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This book is an invaluable resource of information about the HIV/AIDS disease and suggestions for therapists about how to deal with people with HIV/AIDS.
Dr. Hoffman presents a thorough, compassionate, scholarly, and readable text for psychotherapists on how to assess, treat, and prevent HIV/AIDS.
This book is a must-read for all therapists who now work with or ever will work with clients who have HIV/AIDS.
Dr. Hoffman presents excellent clinical examples of the experiences of people with HIV/AIDS and of how therapists have to change their typical therapeutic styles to work with clients who have HIV/AIDS.
Dr. Hoffman forces us to examine our feelings about HIV/AIDS and death so that we can be more helpful to our clients. --Clara E. Hill, Ph.D., University of Maryland
This book is a comprehensive and organized compilation of existing research and theory on psychosocial aspects of HIV/AIDS written for, and accessible to, the front line providers of human services during this epidemic. Unique amidst a rapidly growing proliferation of books for human service providers on HIV/AIDS, this book integrates social science scholarship into a practice-oriented text filled with excellent case examples. A book that has such impressive scope and scholarly underpinnings while simultaneously being immediately useful to those doing important work in the `HIV trenches' is rare. --James M. Croteau, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology, Western Michigan University
[This book] provides information about both the medical and the mental health needs of people with HIV and it also describes interventions that reduce the risk of acquiring HIV....[The authors] successfully combine these topics into a concise handbook that is suitable for students, trainees, and practitioners of all stripes. --Mark H. Townsend, MD, Psychiatric Services
...an extensive, wide-ranging synthesis of clinical information and empirical data. Counseling Clients with HIV Disease should be very useful for psychologists, counselors, social workers, psychiatrists, nurses, and other professionals providing mental health services to persons with HIV. --J. Gary Linn, Disability Studies Quarterly
Of particular value is Hoffman's conceptual framework for helping people with HIV disease... Clinical and empirical research is integrated and presented through case examples and counseling interventions. --Barbara Dane, School of Social Work, NYU. National Association of Social Workers, 1997.