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Michael
Shernoff
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Michael Shernoff received his MSW from SUNY StonyBrook in
1977. He has been a psychotherapist in full time private practice
in Manhattan since 1983. From 1991 until Spring 2001 he was
adjunct faculty at Hunter College Graduate School of Social
Work, where he taught a course on Social Work with Lesbians
and Gay Men. He is senior consulting editor of The Journal
of Gay and Lesbian Social Services, contributing editor for
In The Family magazine, and is the online mental health expert
for The Body.com, the world's largest HIV/AIDS web site. His
newest book, HIV Combination Therapies: A Guide for Mental
Health Professionals was published in July, 2001 by University
of California San Francisco AIDS Health Project. He is also
editor of :AIDS and Mental Health Practice: Clinical and Policy
Issues; Gay Widowers: Life After The Death of a Partner; Human
Services for Gay People: Clinical and Community Practice;
Counseling Chemically Dependent People With HIV Illness; and
co editor of The Sourcebook on gay and Lesbian Health Care;
Volumes 1 and 2 and The Second Decade of AIDS: A Mental Health
Practice Handbook. He authored four entries in the Encyclopedia
of AIDS, an entry in The Encyclopedia of Social Work on Individual
Practice With Gay Men and over fifty articles on psychosocial
issues of HIV/AIDS and mental health for gay men.
He also co-authored two brochures on AIDS that are widely
used throughout the world, as well as the earliest AIDS prevention
intervention for Gay and Bisexual men on Eroticizing Safer
Sex that was also used world wide. He has served on the boards
of The National Social Work AIDS Network, (NSWAN), and National
Lesbian/Gay Health Foundation. He is a past member of the
NASW National Committee on Lesbian/Gay Issues, NYC Department
of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Alcoholism Services
Lesbian and Gay Advisory Committee, and co-chaired The AIDS
Task Forces for The American OrthoPsychiatric Association
and The Society for the Scientific Study of Sex.
His articles are all posted on his web site http://www.gaypsychotherapy.com.
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