Michael Shernoff, MSW is a psychotherapist and author in Manhattan who is also adjunct faculty at Hunter College Graduate School of Social Work. He edited: Counseling Chemically Dependant People With HIV Illness; Human Services for Gay People: Clinical and Community Practice; and coedited (with Walt Odets) The Second Decade of AIDS: A Mental Health Practice Handbook. Recent anthologies are: Gay Widowers: Life After the Death of a Partner, published in December, 1997 by Haworth Press, and AIDS and Mental Health Practice: Clinical and Policy Issues, published in February, 1999 also by Haworth Press.

Articles by Michael Shernoff:

• Why Do Men Bareback? No Easy Answers (2006)
  Excerpt from Without Condoms: Unprotected Sex, Gay Men & Barebacking
• Michael Shernoff Ends Role at The Body's Ask the Experts Forums (December 2003)
• Into the Third Decade of AIDS: Books on HIV and Mental Health (March/April 2002)
• "Once Again, We All Have a Lot of Grieving to Do" (November 2001)
  The impact of the September 11 disaster on people living with HIV/AIDS
• Getting Started: Basic Skills for Effective Social Work With People with HIV and AIDS (1998)
• Psychosocial Interventions in Persons With HIV-Associated Neuropsychiatric Compromise (1998)
  Co-authored by Stephan L. Buckingham
• Gay Widowers: Grieving in Relation to Trauma and Social Supports (1998)
• I'm Not Done Yet (1997)
  By Phill Wilson, from Gay Widowers: Life After the Death of a Partner, ed. Michael Shernoff, MSW
• Challenges and Dilemmas Regarding Protease Inhibitors (1997)
• A History of Hope: The HIV Rollercoaster (1997)
• Reviving the Tribe: Regenerating Gay Men's Sexuality and Culture in the Ongoing Epidemic by Eric Rofes (Book Review) (1997)
• Counseling End Stage Clients With AIDS (1996)
• Gay Men With AIDS in Rural America (1996)
• Long Term Survivors of HIV/AIDS (1992, 1996)
• Physicians Living With AIDS/HIV (1996)
• Counseling Chemically Dependent People With HIV Illness (1995)
• AIDS: The Therapist's Journey (1994)
  Disclosing the Therapist's HIV Status?
  A Classic Case of Countertransference
  Discussing Death
  Professional Challenges of Psychotherapy With People Living with HIV/AIDS
  Avoiding Burnout
  Conclusion
• Disclosing HIV Status to Patients: An HIV Positive Therapist Responds (1994)
• Choosing a Therapist When You Have HIV/AIDS (1992)
• Loss and AIDS (1992)
• Substance Abuse and AIDS: Report From the Front Lines (The Impact on Professionals) (1992)
• What Is Self-Empowerment? (1992)
• AIDS Prevention and Public Policy: The Experience of Gay Males (1991)
• Coping With the Holidays with AIDS/HIV (1991)
• Designing Effective AIDS Prevention Workshops for Gay and Bisexual Men (1991)
• Some Reflections on Relationships and Sexual Intimacy for Gay Men with AIDS/HIV (1991)
• The Changing Face of Gay Men's Sexuality in Response to AIDS (1990)
• Why Every Social Worker Should Be Challenged by AIDS (1990)
• Saying Goodbye to Someone You Love (1989)
• When a Friend Has AIDS (1989)
• AIDS: Prevention Is the Only Vaccine Available (1988)
• Coping with AIDS Terror: A Guide for the Urban Gay (1986)

Michael can be reached via e-mail or at his home page.