Newswise — The goal of this special issue of Psychosomatic Medicine is to provide a comprehensive update on the wealth of research documenting the effects of psychosocial variables (e.g., depression, stress, coping) on HIV disease progression, prognostic disease indicators, adherence to HIV medications, and risky behaviors. This review should provide a useful road map to help guide a multidisciplinary approach to HIV clinical care and research.
Articles include:"¢ Overview of HIV "¢ Trauma, Mental Health, Distrust, and Stigma Among HIV-Positive Persons: Implications for Effective Care "¢ Role of Depression, Stress, and Trauma in HIV Disease Progression "¢ Do Positive Psychosocial Factors Predict Disease Progression in HIV-1? A Review of the Evidence "¢ Coping as a Multisystem Construct Associated With Pathways Mediating HIV-Relevant Immune Function and Disease Progression "¢ Psychosocial Influences on HIV-1 Disease Progression: Neural, Endocrine, and Virologic Mechanisms "¢ Behavioral Mediation of the Relationship Between Psychosocial Factors and HIV Disease Progression "¢ Effects of Psychological Interventions on Neuroendocrine Hormone Regulation and Immune Status in HIV-Positive Persons: A Review of Randomized Controlled Trials "¢ Psychopharmacology in HIV-Infected Patients "¢ Co-occurrence of Treatment Nonadherence and Continued HIV Transmission Risk Behaviors: Implications for Positive Prevention Interventions "¢ Psychosocial Predictors of HIV-Associated Sexual Behaviors and the Efficacy of Prevention Interventions in Adolescents at-Risk for HIV Infection: What Works and What Doesn't Work"¢ HIV Prevention for Injecting Drug Users: The First 25 Years and Counting "¢ Integrating Multidimensional HIV Prevention Programs Into Healthcare Settings
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About Psychosomatic MedicinePsychosomatic Medicine, official journal of the American Psychosomatic Society, publishes experimental and clinical studies dealing with various aspects of the relationships among social, psychological, and behavioral factors and bodily processes. It is an international, interdisciplinary journal devoted to investigation in behavioral biology, psychiatry, psychology, physiology, anthropology, and clinical medicine. Each issue contains peer-reviewed articles reporting on therapeutics as well as preventive interventions. Specialists from many disciplines benefit from the in-depth coverage of the biological underpinnings of human physiology and behavior.
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