Assessment and Treatment of People Living with HIV and AIDS

Price: $180.00
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Online Workshop: 7 CE Credit Hours
Instructor: Laura Petracek, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.

In this course, the focus is on the assessment and treatment of HIV/AIDS with an emphasis on counseling. The student will gain the essential knowledge to assess and treat people infected with HIV or who have AIDS. This course is designed to meet the requirements for licensed professional clinical counselors in California who must take a one-time, seven hour continuing education course covering the assessment and treatment of people living with HIV and AIDS, as part of the 36 hour continuing education coursework requirement. 

The workshop covers the basics of the current information about HIV/AIDS, including definition, transmission, types of virus, how a person becomes infected, progression, evidence that HIV causes AIDS and how, and the origin of HIV/AIDS. Prevention concerns are addressed recognizing special populations.

How HIV/AIDS patients are treated medically is explained along with how to care for them. Specifically, the course discusses counseling and psychotherapy with HIV/AIDS patients. It focuses on counselor roles, key issues, client centered counseling, family issues, mental health disorders, legal (discrimination and stigma) issues and finally, end-of-life issues. AIDS is still considered a terminally ill disease. The course concludes with a brief discussion of Growing old with HIV/AIDS. Instruction methods include presentation with slides, Q&A and group activities.

Learning Objectives:

  • Summarize the current basic information about HIV/AIDS, including definition, transmission, types of virus, how a person becomes infected, progression, evidence that HIV causes AIDS and how, and the origin of HIV/AIDS.
  • Describe how HIV and AIDS are treated and the many drug therapies available.
  • Identify what drugs are currently used to treat HIV/AIDS.
  • Explain how to care for someone with HIV and AIDS.
  • Describe the importance of prevention efforts of HIV disease infection and the special populations that are vulnerable to infection.
  • Discuss the role of the therapist in counseling those with HIV, including how to implement "client-centered" counseling, identify key issues in counseling and how to address family issues, mental health disorders, legal issues surrounding discrimination and stigma and end-of-life issues. 
  • State the basic issues about growing old with HIV/AIDS.

Instructor:

Laura Petracek, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. is currently a Psychologist at San Quentin State Prison, and maintains a private practice in both San Francisco and Oakland. She has worked in the field of Chemical Dependency for over 30 years, Domestic Violence for 20 years, and for past the past 10 years in Forensic Psychology. 

As Clinical Director at New Leaf, she developed and implemented HIV/AIDS education training for Interns and Staff training.  Her book, “WOVEN, An Anger Management Book for Women,” was published in the fall of 2004 by New Harbinger Publications. Her educational background includes a:

  • PhD: Clinical Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies
  • Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Golden Gate Medical Examiners
  • Pre-Doctoral APA Internship: Harborview Hospital, Seattle, WA
  •  Anger Management and Domestic Violence Program
  • M.S.W.: Wurzweiler School of Social Work, New York City
  • B.A.: Hamline University, St. Paul, MN

 
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