| If a Partner Has AIDS: Guide to Clinical Intervention for Relationships in Crisis |  | Author: R. Dennis Shelby
Publisher: Routledge
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
Buy New: $1.95
You Save: $21.00 (92%)
New (7) Used (17) from $0.01
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 3543920
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 269
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 1560230029
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.916
EAN: 9781560230021
ASIN: 1560230029
Publication Date: March 4, 1992
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: New Paperback
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
This powerful book is an immersion into the experience of AIDS, loss, and the impact of HIV on the mourning process. It presents a reconstruction of the general range of experiences of well and surviving partners of AIDS diagnosed men from a study focusing on the well partner?s perspective from his first suspicion that his partner has AIDS, to caring for him, and through mourning his loss. If a Partner Has AIDS is a comprehensive book that emphasizes the integral role relationships and their loss play in individuals’experience with AIDS and HIV infection. This helpful book discusses the phenomenon of anticipatory grief and mourning in light of advances in clinical theory. Reformulations of grief and mourning are presented in a self-psychological framework, offering insights into the complexity of the partners’experiences and providing a framework for clinical intervention. Psychotherapists and clinicians will find the information in this practical book relevant to their work with homosexuals and persons affected by AIDS and HIV. Students in social work and psychology will find the step-by-step approach through the long processes of terminal illness, death, and mourning vital education for their future work. For couples and surviving partners impacted by AIDS, their friends and families, this important book offers a framework for understanding and healing.
|
| Customer Reviews:
Well Researched and Thought Out! May 31, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read this book for a course on HIV. It was the only one that I could find that gave a clinical look at the unique effects a partner's death can have on the homosexual community. This surprised me since AIDS has taken an especially large toll on the gay population. The author teaches us unique aspects of grieving given the circumstances that many people don't view the death of a partner to be the same as the death of a spouse. Also delves into the fact that the relationship may not have been something others were aware of or agreed with. All in all this is an educational and moving book. Anyone interested in (or already working in) the social services field should read it.
|
|
|
Powered by Associate-O-Matic
| |
