Management of Psychiatric Disorders in Patients With HIV
Summary
- Personality disorders increase the risk for HIV infection, increase rates of high-risk sexual behavior and needle use, decrease adherence, and increase resource use[Weissman 1993; Ladd 2003]
- Patients with personality disorders have an excess of a normally endowed temperamental factor who have not been taught to cope with their endowment
- Patients with extraverted behavior exhibit a high frequency of behaviors driven to get an emotional reward immediately
Treatment of Patients With Personality Disorder
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Keywords: Psychiatric Disorders, Special Populations