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The HIV clinical tutorial for community mental health professionals

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HIV disease is an emerging community mental health concern. The need for specialized training to help community mental health professionals develop comprehensive knowledge and skills to serve this new population of clients is evident. The HIV clinical tutorial model is an innovative approach to continuing education characterized by an experiential and clinical orientation, a small participant group, and an interdisciplinary faculty. The three-day intensive workshop provides participants with experiences that can alter their perspective toward clients affected by HIV/AIDS and toward the role of the mental health system in responding to this epidemic. Similar training programs should be developed nationwide through collaboration among medical schools, teaching hospitals, public health departments and community mental health centers.

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  1. Department of Community Mental Health, FMHI, University of South Florida, 13301 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., 33612-3899, Tampa, Florida

    Michael D. Knox Ph.D. (associate professor and chairman)

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  1. Michael D. Knox Ph.D.
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DR. Knox is also serves as Director of the USF Center for AIDS Education for Health Care Providers. Dr. Caies is clinical assistant professor in the Department of Community Mental Health and tutorial supervisor for the USF Center for AIDS Education for Health Care Providers. Funding to develop the HIV clinical tutorial was provided under grant #BRT-000044-02-0, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through a subcontract with Emory University.

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Knox, M.D., Gaies, J.S. The HIV clinical tutorial for community mental health professionals. Community Ment Health J 26, 559–566 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00752459

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