Book chapter
Psychotic Disorders and Serious Mental Illness
Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry
Oxford University Press
05/01/2017
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199392742.003.0019
Abstract
The major public health problem that is HIV/AIDS in persons with a serious mental illness is aptly described a “syndemic.” Having HIV/AIDS puts one at much greater risk for developing a serious mental illness. Conversely, having a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, substance use disorder, is associated with many factors that place one at greater risk for contracting and transmitting HIV. And, in both cases of serious mental illness and HIV/AIDS, each disorder creates many new challenges in the management of the other disorder. This chapter addresses these challenges, which center around being able to participate actively and adhere to medication regimens needed to manage both medical and psychiatric conditions. Fortunately, specialized models of care like comprehensive, integrated clinics and nurse care managers are ways to provide effective, satisfying, and costeffective care to this most vulnerable population.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Psychotic Disorders and Serious Mental Illness
- Creators
- Mary Ann CohenJack M. GormanJeffrey M. JacobsonPaul VolberdingScott LetendreAlexander ThompsonDaniel WilliamsOliver FreudenreichAndrew AngelinoGlenn Treisman
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry
- DOI
- 10.1093/med/9780199392742.003.0019
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Alternative title
- Part IV Psychiatric Disorders and HIV Infection
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/01/2017
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Emergency Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984296249302771
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