Psychiatr News November 17, 2006
Volume 41, Number 22, page 17
© 2006 American Psychiatric Association
MH PROFESSIONALS SEEK UPDATE ON HIV PSYCHIATRY
Nearly 200 participants listen to Marshall Forstein, M.D., at the
symposium "HIV Care for the Mental Health Clinician" at APA's 2006
Institute on Psychiatric Services last month in New York City. Forstein is
chair of the Steering Committee on HIV Psychiatry of the American Psychiatric
Institute for Research and
Education.
APA's Office of HIV Psychiatry coordinated the session, which was supported
by a training grant from the federal Center for Mental Health Services. It was
designed to create a dialog for understanding, assessing, diagnosing, and
treating the psychiatric illnesses that accompany AIDS and HIV disease.
Attendees reviewed the spectrum of HIV-related neuropsychiatric, psychiatric,
and somatic disorders; individual case histories; the serious risks associated
with the use of crystal methamphetamine; and techniques for obtaining a
patient's sexual history.
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