Utilizing HIV at-home testing and Telehealth TechonologyYTH
Through the use of telehealth technology, at-home HIV testing is brought to research participants in the comfort of their own home. This presentation explains the significance and impact of two active research studies of using telehealth for remote counseling sessions and at-home HIV testing from the University of Michigan.
AIM Target Programs is the leader in out-patient counseling and assessment, providing services for substance abuse, drug testing, BIP/domestic violence, anger management, and anti-theft. Incorporated in 1994, AIM Target has been helping adult residents of Southwest Florida for over 22 years with over 67,000 people served.
Utilizing HIV at-home testing and Telehealth TechonologyYTH
Through the use of telehealth technology, at-home HIV testing is brought to research participants in the comfort of their own home. This presentation explains the significance and impact of two active research studies of using telehealth for remote counseling sessions and at-home HIV testing from the University of Michigan.
AIM Target Programs is the leader in out-patient counseling and assessment, providing services for substance abuse, drug testing, BIP/domestic violence, anger management, and anti-theft. Incorporated in 1994, AIM Target has been helping adult residents of Southwest Florida for over 22 years with over 67,000 people served.
Young Gay Couples - How they use drugs and sex to stay safeYTH
Data collected from 199 young gay couples (YMSM couples) recruited through Facebook ads found that men were thoughtful about their drug use and HIV risk reduction strategies within their partnerships.
This paper gives and overview of factoes associated with depression among gay men. This paper was presented by Limin Mao et. al. at the AFAO HIV Educators Conference 2008.
A life course approach to preventing drugs & alcohol risks [March 2016 Int'l ...Mentor
A life-course approach to preventing drug and alcohol risks, presented at the Home Office's International Crime & Policing Conference 2016.
Presentation from Mentor CEO Michael O'Toole and Andrew Brown, formerly of DrugScope and now working with Mind and PHE.
Young Gay Couples - How they use drugs and sex to stay safeYTH
Data collected from 199 young gay couples (YMSM couples) recruited through Facebook ads found that men were thoughtful about their drug use and HIV risk reduction strategies within their partnerships.
This paper gives and overview of factoes associated with depression among gay men. This paper was presented by Limin Mao et. al. at the AFAO HIV Educators Conference 2008.
A life course approach to preventing drugs & alcohol risks [March 2016 Int'l ...Mentor
A life-course approach to preventing drug and alcohol risks, presented at the Home Office's International Crime & Policing Conference 2016.
Presentation from Mentor CEO Michael O'Toole and Andrew Brown, formerly of DrugScope and now working with Mind and PHE.
Larry K. Brown, M.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island - presenting on the topic of Adolescent Sexual Behavior: What Does Reserch Say and What Can Clinicians Do? -- at the Sheppard Pratt Health System Wednesday Grand Rounds Series for Mental Health Professionals (in Towson, MD). Presentation delivered on January 20, 2010. Contact info@sheppardpratt.org for more information on CME presentations at Sheppard Pratt.
National studies have demonstrated that LGBTQ adolescents are disproportionately impacted by negative health outcomes including STDs, HIV, and unplanned pregnancy. In 2014, Essential Access Health surveyed LAUSD school-based Wellness Centers; gaps in current knowledge and practice related to inclusive clinical care of LGBTQ patients were identified. In 2016, we implemented staff trainings to improve LGBTQ-inclusive services. Based on training evaluation, areas for further technical assistance were identified, and used to develop online training resources. This presentation will discuss tools and best practices for implementing trainings on inclusive care.
The DSM-IV and ICD-10 have defined hundreds of mental disorders which vary in onset, duration, pathogenesis, functional disability, and treatability. The designation of gender identity disorders (GID) as mental disorders is not a license for stigmatization, or for the deprivation of patients' civil rights. The use of a formal diagnosis is often important in offering relief, providing health insurance coverage, and guiding research to provide more effective care.
DSM-5 Development Group indicate that GID can still be given to children who reject the assigned gender but who do not experience any anatomical dysphoria. To qualify as a mental disorder, a behavioral pattern must result in a significant adaptive disadvantage to the person or cause personal mental suffering. However, the removal of distress/impairment criterion can lead to over-diagnosis of children who do not meet criteria. Instead, it is argued that criterion should be kept based on distress resulting from living in the present gender as apposed to anguish stemming from societal prejudice and discrimination. It would be more appropriate and respectful if the diagnosis is written in language reflecting contemporary views of gender rather than views that are based on gender-specific games or clothing.
Goals: Psychotherapy often provides education about a range of options not previously seriously considered by the patient. It emphasizes the need to set realistic life goals for work and relationships, and it seeks to define and alleviate the patient's conflicts that may have undermined a stable lifestyle.
The Therapeutic Relationship: The establishment of a reliable trusting relationship with the patient is the first step toward successful work as a mental health professional. This is usually accomplished by competent nonjudgmental exploration of the gender issues with the patient during the initial diagnostic evaluation. Other issues may be better dealt with later, after the person feels that the clinician is interested in and understands their gender identity concerns. Ideally, the clinician's work is with the whole of the person's complexity. The goals of therapy are to help the person to live more comfortably within a gender identity and to deal effectively with non-gender issues. The clinician often attempts to facilitate the capacity to work and to establish or maintain supportive relationships.
Language is very important to indicate that a community is making an effort to be trans-friendly. It often makes the difference in whether a transgender person will approach a community and/or clinician and whether they will choose to stay.
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A. De Luca, Blosnich, Hentschel, King, & Amen (2016). The authors indicate that mental health has emerged as one of the critical areas of focus in recent times, and for a long time, it had been sidelined. However, with the realization that most health conditions are related in one way or another to a mental disorder, this area is now been studied extensively, and more attention has been given to patients.
B. Mental health professionals point to insufficient mental healthcare resources in the United States as one of the major factors contributing to the rising suicide rate in the country. Nevertheless, these professionals noted that emergency providers paly major role at forefront of the problem and may also play significant role in its prevention. The experts reiterated the necessity for providers to possess the skills required for managing patients at lower suicide risk levels, especially in settings in which such patients do not enough access to behavioral healthcare providers and that the providers need to be accustomed to suicide risk, especially when there are widely publicized high-profile instances of suicide.
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C. According to Kohn, et. al, (2018), emphasize the gap in mental health treatment in the American Region when examined through the prevalence of mental health disorders, use of mental health services, and the global burden of disease. Statistical data from community-based surveys of mental disorders in the various countries in America including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, and the United States etc. were utilized. The World Mental Health Survey published data were used in estimating professional the treatment gap. For Canada, Chile, and Guatemala, the treatment gap was calculated from data files. The mean, median, and weighted treatment gap, and the 12-month prevalence by severity and category of mental disorder were estimated for the general adult, child-adolescent, and indigenous populations. Disability-adjusted Life Years and Years Lived with Disability were calculated from the Global Burden of Disease study. Mental and substance use disorders accounted for 10.5% of the global burden of disease in the Americas (Kohn, Ali, Puac-Polanco, Figueroa, López-Soto, Morgan, & Vicente, 2018).
D. Wang, & Xie, (2019) Emphasizes the need to eliminate the prevalence of mental health service utilization among many adults in the United States. The authors exam ...
Gang Membership, Violence, and Psychiatric Morbidityjeremy coid
Gang members engage in many high-risk activities associated with psychiatric morbidity, particularly violence related ones. The authors investigated associations between gang membership, violent behavior, psychiatric morbidity, and
use of mental health services. The study concluded that gang members show inordinately high levels of psychiatric morbidity,
placing a heavy burden on mental health services. Traumatization and fear of further violence, exceptionally prevalent in gang members, are associated with service use. Gang membership should be routinely assessed in individuals presenting to health care services in areas with high levels of violence and gang activity. Health care professionals may have an important role in promoting desistence from gang activity.
1. Circuit Party Attendance, Club Drug Use, and Unsafe Sex in Gay Men Andrew Mattison, MSW, Ph.D. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center University of California, San Diego
2. Circuit Party Attendance, Club Drug Use, and Unsafe Sex in Gay Men Purpose Determine if health problems exist at circuit parties Determine targeted behavioral interventions Security and safety Education and health promotion
14. Drug Use(at circuit parties in the past 12 months) Alcohol 79% Ecstasy 72% Special K 60% GHB 28% Cocaine 39% Crystal Meth 36% Marijuana 45% Poppers 39%
15. Results At circuit parties, unsafe sexual behavior was significantly associated with frequent use of Ecstasy,Special K, and Poppers Unsafe sexual activity in the past 12 months was significantly associated with Poppers GHB and Crystal Meth show trends for unsafe sexual activity in the past 12 months
16. Results Unsafe sexual behavior in the past 12 months was significantly associated with the following reasons for party attendance: To have sex To be Uninhibited and Wild To Look and Feel Good
17. Conclusions Circuit party attendees are well educated and financially secure Party drug use was high Poppers, Ecstasy, Special K, Crystal Meth, and GHB are associated with various measures of unsafe sex Possible interventions should be setting based and “savvy” to the norms of the circuit community
18. Issues for future focus Circuit party results lead to interest in surveying local, late-night clubs for the following reasons: Local clubs may present a different demographic make-up Possible differences in drug use and sexual behavior between party patrons and local club patrons Differences in behavior/norms between HIV+ and HIV- respondents
19. Non- Medical Interventions Andrew Mattison, MSW, Ph.D. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center University of California, San Diego