Counseling Clients with HIV Disease
Assessment, Intervention, and Prevention
Mary Ann Hoffman
2. Disease Progression: Physical and Neurocognitive Changes
I. Assessment: Overview of the Psychosocial Model of HIV Disease
3. Assessing the Defining Characteristics of HIV Disease
4. Assessing the Social Support of Clients with HIV Disease
5. Assessing the Unique Life Situation of Clients with HIV Disease
6. Assessing Personality, Disease Co-Factors, and Demographic Characteristics of Clients with HIV Disease
II. Interventions to Facilitate Adaptation to HIV Disease
7. Interventions to Facilitate Emotional Adaptation to HIV Disease
8. Interventions to Facilitate Cognitive and Behavioral Adaptation to HIV Disease
9. Interventions to Facilitate Health-Promoting Behaviors and Attitudes
10. Interventions to Facilitate Adaptation to Changes in Life Goals and Roles 11. Interventions to Explore Spiritual and Religious Adaptation to HIV Disease
12. Interventions to Prepare for Death and the Dying Process
13. Case Examples: Applying the HIV Psychosocial Model
III. The Psychotherapeutic Context
14. The Counseling Relationship: Boundaries, Transference, and Countertransference
15. Multicultural Considerations to Counseling Persons with
HIV Disease
16. Ethical and Professional Issues in Counseling Persons with HIV Disease 17. Counseling the Caregivers: Significant Others and Health Care Providers 18. Training Mental Health Professionals to Work with Clients with HIV-Related Concerns
IV. Prevention: Risk Factors, Models of Intervention, and Community-Based Interventions
19. Counseling for Prevention: Understanding Risk Factors
20. Models of Intervention
21. Community-Based Interventions
Epilogue: What We Can Learn from HIV Disease
Appendix: Resources for Mental Health Professionals Counseling Clients
with HIV Disease