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mental health AIDS is a quarterly biopsychosocial research update on HIV and mental health organized by topic area. Each issue also includes a "tool box" feature article, plus the newest resources (books, articles, Web sites) for clinical practice.

Winter 2010 Newsletter

Source: CMHS/SAMHSA

Tool Box: "Lending an Existential Ear to the Elemental Issues in HIV-Related Therapy"

Existential psychotherapy is grounded in "a theoretical framework that concerns itself with articulating the fundamental dimensions, meanings, and dilemmas of human existence." This framework is "especially well suited to the work of psychotherapy with individuals living with HIV disease" and "can inform any number of techniques, including those drawn from a cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, or psychodynamic approach." This tool box centers on several studies that were existential in focus and conducted largely among people of color living with HIV. These studies are bracketed by an applied understanding of the theory and practice of existential psychotherapy in the context of HIV disease.

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