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The severely mentally ill are at risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, challenging mental health providers to develop new services for them. This book is a primer for the large number of providers who have not recognized the risk of HIV in the mentally ill or developed HIV-related programs for their patients or staff members. Short chapters review the issues that will emerge when clinicians in private practice, managed-care associations, and publicly funded settings discuss HIV with patients. The editors group the situations in which these issues arise into three categories: the identification and assessment of patients at risk;
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