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Psychologist, researcher, educator and AIDS prevention counsellor Seth C. Kalichman answers more than 350 of the most commonly asked questions about HIV infection and AIDS. Culled from thousands of questions posed to AIDS telephone hotlines and posted in Web forums, this comprehensive guide offers the most current knowledge from medical and behavioural sciences on prevention and treatment, including advances in medications and the challenges that treatments themselves pose to individuals with HIV. While most people today are aware of AIDS, many have misconceptions about the disease, such as how HIV and AIDS relate, how the virus is spread (and how it is not), and what kinds of behaviour put one at risk. Misinformation about AIDS breeds unwarranted fears and prejudice and puts people at risk from infection. Kalichman sets the record straight with clear guidance on issues such as sexuality and drug use as well as testing and privacy, health care, legal issues and the social challenges of...

This book describes how therapists can combine multicultural theory with their own lived experience to meaningfully engage clients in issues of culture. Many mental health practitioners (MHPs) today recognize and affirm the importance of cultural background - race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality - in their clients' lives. But many MHPs struggle to address cultural issues in practice, whether because of unfamiliarity, or fear of giving offense, or because the presence of cultural differences or similarities between client and therapist that can make it difficult to view the client objectively. The authors of this book recommend that MHPs focus not on what they have learned in previous clinical or educational settings, but on what they don't know about the client who sits across from them. They discuss practical strategies for engaging with clients and their cultural identities, including repairing mistakes that threaten the therapeutic relationship. Through a wide range of case e...

Emotion-focused family therapy is a treatment model developed to empower parents to take on an active role in supporting their child's mental health, regardless of their age, level of motivation, or involvement in therapy themselves. Throughout treatment, the clinician and parent work together to identify and process emotion states, or emotion blocks, that can lead to problematic patterns of parenting. Specifically, research has shown that parental fear and self-blame can lead to a decrease in parents' confidence in their abilities and an increase in enabling or accommodating their child's symptoms. When such blocks surface, this approach always supports the parent - without judgment - to transform the emotional states interfering with optimal caregiving and also foster a reconnection to healthy parenting instincts. In this video program, Dr. Adele Lafrance demonstrates a targeted approach to working through blocks with a mother whose fears interfere with her ability to s...