Theory and Practice of HIV Councelling

Robert Bor is both a clinical and a counselling psychologist and lectures at the City University, London. Riva Miller, a medical social worker, counsels in the Haemophilia Centre and is the HIV Counselling Co-ordinator for the Royal Free Hospital, London.Eleanor Goldman is a haematologist, who treats patients with inherited bleeding.

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Part 1 Theory of Systemic HIV Counselling; Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview; Chapter 2 Systemic Theory and Practice in Counselling People with HIV Disease; Chapter 3 Exploring and Defining Problems in HIV Counselling; Chapter 4 Tasks in Systemic HIV Counselling; Chapter 5 Preparing Patients for Bad News; Chapter 6 Reframing: Creating Balance in Patient BeliefSystems; Part 2 Clinical Application; Chapter 7 The Role of Counselling in Pre-and Post-HIV Antibody Testing; Chapter 8 Counselling Patients with HIV Infection about Laboratory Tests with Predictive Values; Chapter 9 The Role of Focused Counselling for Drug Trials; Chapter 10 Secrecy-related Problems in HIV Management; Chapter 11 The Worried Well; Chapter 12 Counselling Women About HIV-related Problems; Chapter 13 Counselling HIV-infected Children and Their Families; Chapter 14 The Adolescent and HIV; Chapter 15 Counselling in the Terminal Care Phase of HIV Disease; Chapter 16 Bereavement Counselling; Part 3 Medical Aspects; Chapter 17 Medical Aspects of HIV Infection, Dr S.B. Squire, Dr M.A. Johnson;