The HIV-Negative Gay Man: Developing Strategies for Survival and Emotional Well-being Steven Ball Paperback - 116 pages (March 1998) Harrington Park Press; ISBN: 1560231149

Compiled by both professionals and peers, The HIV-Negative Gay Man: Developing Strategies for Survival and Emotional Weil-Being goes to the front lines of HIV prevention to help you understand the most beneficial and dependable ways of preserving the value of life and living it to the fullest. Radically reshaping and rehumanizing traditional HIV prevention efforts, these updated and personalized approaches will give you many individual strategies for survival in a world in which the link between sex and survival has been turned upside-down.
"This very useful first volume on the subject is about what prevention for HIV-negative gay men should have been about all along: not condoms, but human life. The thinking presented here is INTELLIGENT AND PERSONAL, CLINICALLY EXPERIENCED AND HUMANE, all at the same time. This actually is essential reading for anyone working with HIV-negative gay men."
—Walt Odets, PhD, Author, In the Shadow of the Epidemic: Being HIV-Negative in the Age of AIDS;
Clinical Psychologist, private practice, Berkeley, California
"A COMPELLING AND DIVERSE WORK of personal stories and professional intervention strategies that poignantly and passionately addresses the reality of being an HIV-negative gay man today."
—Benjamin Lipton, ACSW, Coordinator of Mental Health Services, Gay Men's Health Crisis, New York, New York
"I AM GRATEFUL TO BALL AND HIS CONTRIBUTORS for raising the questions that must be addressed by the gay community and mental health practitioners in the years ahead."
—George S, Getzel, DSW, Professor, Hunter College of the City University of New York
About the Editor
Steven Ball, MA, MSW, ACSW, is a social worker and psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. For the past decade, he has specialized in developing group interventions for marginalized members of the gay community. He is currently a consultant to the HIV Prevention Department at Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York City where he is supervising the development of time-limited groups for gay men who are HIV-negative.
Bail is a frequent speaker at national conferences and the author of numerous articles on working with gay men. He is also a drama therapist with expertise in working with geriatric and persistently mentally ill populations.

Paperback, excellent condition