Stages of psychological adaptation to the infection by the HIV

From a pure medical process to aboard HIV positive patients, practitioners are agree to recognize necessity of a multidisciplinary care. Besides socio logical, biological and medical aspects psychology, behavioral science inte rvenes directly in HIV positive's course after diagnostic's revelation and on its lifetime. This article suggests to make a relationship between, on t he one hand, a theory based on clinical observations and, on the other hand , research in the field of the state of being HIV positive. This original a pproach permit to map the course of psychotherapeutic roads. In this contex t, group psychotherapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy are indicated in HI V positive's care.