Resources

For Providers

Tools: Assessment and Counseling

• Adolescents, HIV, and Mental Health. Materials developed by the Mental Health Subgroup of the AETC Adolescent HIV/AIDS Workgroup. 09/2006.
  • Introduction: Special Issues for Adolescents with HIV. Author: Linda Frank, PhD, MSN, ACRN (Workgroup Leader)
  • Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia. Tables with diagnostic criteria and clinical resource guide.
  • Depression. Tables with diagnostic criteria and clinical resource guide.
  • Gender Identity Issues. Tables with definitions of related terms and suggested clinical approaches to adolescents with gender identity issues.
• Case Finding, Primary and Secondary Prevention for Adolescents: Clinical Risk Assessment and Screening Guide. Comprehensive guide from the Pennsylvania/MidAtlantic AIDS Education and Training Center.
• Child and Adolescent Depression and Anxiety Toolkit. Center for Children with Special Needs, Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, Washington. Links to resources for families and professionals. Includes multilingual information.
• A Guide to Sexual History Taking with Men who have Sex with Men. California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center. February 2006. Includes questions for adults and teens.
• HEADSS questionnaire with additional questions for for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or (LGB) Youth. Adapted with permission, from Goldering JM, Cohen EH: Getting into an adolescent's H.E.A.D.S. Contemporary Pediatrics 1998; 5:7, and Ryan C, Futterman D. Lesbian and Gay Youth: Care and Counseling. Columbia University Press. 1998.
• Health Education and Counseling Guidelines for STD/HIV Prevention The Client-Centered Risk Assessment/Risk Reduction Session. California STD Controllers Association, California Department of Health Services, California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center. No date.

Tools: Medications

• HerbMed. An interactive, electronic herbal database - provides hyperlinked access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health. It is an impartial, evidence-based information resource provided by the nonprofit Alternative Medicine Foundation, Inc.
• Management of Depression and HIV. AIDS Education and Training Centers. 2006. Comprehensive toolkit with algorithms and tools for diagnosis and treatment of depression in people with HIV.
• Psychiatric Medications and HIV Antiretrovirals: A Guide to Interactions for Clinicians. New York/New Jersey AIDS Education and Training Center. Provides guidance for minimizing drug interactions and more severe reactions among patients being treated with psychiatric medications in conjunction with antiretorvirals. Data were compiled from published studies and anecdotal reports on March 2004.
• Recreational Drugs and HIV Antiretrovirals: A Guide to Interactions for Clinicians. New York/New Jersey AIDS Education and Training Center. Summer 2005. This educational guide is intended to provide advice that may reduce harm to patients who use these substances in conjunction with antiretroviral agents. Its data is a compilation of information obtained through published and anecdotal studies up to June 2005.

Cultural and Linguistic Competency

• Cultural Competence Resources for Health Care Providers. Health Resources and Services Administration. Extensive online listing.
• An Expanded Look at Some Cultural Groups. From The Provider's Guide to Quality and Culture, Management Sciences for Health. Information about 9 cultural groups, including their strengths and protective factors, challenges to health and well-being, and principles for culturally competent health services.
• Learning Module: Cultural and Spiritual Sensitivity, A Quick Guide to Cultures and Spiritual Traditions. Wintz S, Cooper EP. Association of Professional Chaplains. Training module including information about religious and health-related beliefs of several dozen cultural groups. 2003.

General Reference

• Adolescent Provider Toolkit. Adolescent Health Working Group. Collection of resources for health care providers who work with adolescents, incorporating adolescent health care best practices and including resources for providers, parents, and teens. The Toolkit modules contain screening tools, brief office interventions and counseling guidelines, community resources and referrals, health education materials for teens and their adult caregivers, literature reviews and internet resources. Some sections are translated into Spanish, Vietnamese, and Chinese. 2003-2007.
• Practice Parameters. American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Library of practice parameters on topics such as: Assessment of a Child and Adolescent, Anxiety Disorders, Depressive Disorders, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Legal Issues

• Adolescent Confidentiality Issues & Patient Rights. Guttmacher Institute, State Policies in Brief, May 2007.
• Common Legal Issues & Concerns, Adolescents with HIV: A Guide for Clinicians. AETC Adolescent HIV/AIDS Workgroup. 2006. Covers confidentiality and disclosure, education, and non-adherence.
• National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health. 2001.
• www.LEP.gov. Federal clearinghouse on language access regulations, including legal guides, tools, and resources for organizations seeking to improve access to limited-English proficient (LEP) clients.

For Youth

• ambienteJoven. A Spanish-language website for Latino young men who have sex with men (YMSM) and for Latino gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning (GLBTQ) youth in the United States and Latin America.
• Making MEDS Work for You. Lerner-Weiss N, Burr C. François-Xavier Bagnoud Center, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Booklet for young people with HIV infection who have decided to begin antiretroviral therapy. Written with the ongoing input of an advisory group of experts in HIV care and young people living with HIV, the booklet discusses how antiretroviral medicines work in the body and makes suggestions about successfully managing medication schedules. 2005.
• MySistahs.org. Website by and for young women of color.
• OutProud: The National Coalition for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth . Community website with news, resources, forums.
• Safe Schools Coalition: Resources for GLBT Youth of Color. Resource listing.
• YouthLine: Queer Youth of Colour. Canadian website for LGBT youth.
• YouthResource. Created by and for GLBTQ youth and offers support, community, resources, and peer-to-peer education about sexual health and other issues of concern to GLBTQ youth.

For Families

• Child and Adolescent Depression and Anxiety Toolkit. Center for Children with Special Needs, Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, Washington. Links to resources for families and professionals. Includes multilingual information.
• Depression in Children and Adolescents. National Institute of Mental Health. Resources for parents and providers.