Reflecting current understanding of the complexities of sexual activity among persons with chronic mental illness, the text draws upon the collective wisdom and experience of experts from a variety of settings. Clinicians, advocates, consumers, researchers, legal experts, and administrators all contribute to document the concerns about sexual behavior and the consequent health risks for this at-risk population. The research presented here is particularly timely in view of recent emphases on patient choice, recovery, and advocacy, and can be used to provide guidance to clinicians, mental health administrators, policymakers, advocates, and researchers.
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA and Northcoast Behavioral Healthcare System
1. Sexual Behavior in Persons with Serious Mental Illness: Patterns and Clinical Correlates 2. Human Sexuality and Mental Illness: Consumer Viewpoints and Recovery Principles 3. Sex and Mental Illness: Legal Considerations 4. Dilemmas of Managing Sexual Activity Among Psychiatric Patients 5. Developing and Implementing a Policy for Consensual Sex Between Inpatients 6. Teaching Individuals with Serious Mental Illness about Friendship, Dating and Sexuality 7. HIV and Serious Mental Illness 8. Sexual Trauma in Women with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness 9. Psychotropic Medications and Sexual Dysfunction 10. Pharmacologic Management of Abnormal Sexual Behavior 11. Sexuality, Stigma Busting and Mental Illness
This is the first book to draw together the collective wisdom and experience of clinicians, advocates, consumers, researchers, legal experts and administrators on this subject, and it succeeds very well in distilling this wisdom.
David J. Castle, Peter F. Buckley, Australia) Castle, David J. (Chair of Psychiatry, St Vincent's Hospital, Chair of Psychiatry, St Vincent's Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, USA) Buckley, Peter F. (Dean, Medical College of Georgia, Dean, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta
David J. Castle, Peter F. Buckley, Fiona P. Gaughran, Australia) Castle, David J. (Professor and Chair of Psychiatry, Professor and Chair of Psychiatry, St Vincent's Hospital, The University of Melbourne, USA) Buckley, Peter F. (Dean, Dean, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, UK.) Gaughran, Fiona P. (Lead Consultant in the National Psychosis Service and R&D Director, Lead Consultant in the National Psychosis Service and R&D Director, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Reader in Psychopharmacology and Physical Health at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), London, David J Castle, Peter F Buckley, Fiona P Gaughran
David J. Castle, Peter F. Buckley, Rachel Upthegrove, Australia) Castle, David J. (Professor and Chair of Psychiatry, St Vincent's Hospital, The University of Melbourne, GA USA) Buckley, Peter F. (Professor of Psychiatry and Dean, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, UK) Upthegrove, Rachel (Reader in Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health, and Consultant Psychiatrist, Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham, David J Castle, Peter F Buckley