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. 2024 Oct 15;8:e57939. doi: 10.2196/57939

Table 1.

RAPa session contentb.

Session Topics

Adolescent Parent Family Homework
1
  • General HIV/STIc information

  • Intro to feelings or affect management

  • Adolescent sexual development and HIV/STIs

  • Intro to feelings or affect management

Affect management and communication (eg, strengths and weaknesses in communication and monitoring, affect as barrier to effective parent-teen communication, and sexually specific parent-teen communication) Practice identifying feelings
2
  • Managing feelings or the 3Rsd

  • Linking feelings to risk

  • Parent challenge (set-up)

  • Adolescent development

  • Parental monitoring/ACE IT

  • 3Rs and positive parenting

Parent-teen “RAPping,” part 1: Parent-child communication role-plays and the parent challenge (identifying how teens can be in risk situations and how challenging it can be to stay safe, even for parents) Parent-teen talk about sensitive topic
3
  • “RAPping” (assertive communication) with Parents

  • RAPping” with partners or peers about sex risk or drug use

  • HIV/STI risk situations and using affect management (3R) skills

  • Parental monitoring plans

  • “RAPping” (assertive communication) and using 3Rs with teen

  • “RAPping” (assertive communication) with teen about sex risk or drug use

Parent-teen “RAPping,” part 2: parent-child communication skills practice Parent: monitoring plan practice; teen: RAP (risk) plan practice
4
  • Condom use skills

  • Preparing for parent-teen values discussion

  • Condom use skills

  • Preparing for parent-teen values discussion

Condom use skills activities, family values discussion, family communication plan about risky behaviors that includes affect management (3R) strategies Family communication plan practice; continued individual parent monitoring and teen RAP risk reduction plan practice
5 (Booster)
  • Intervention content review

  • Condom skills practice or review

  • Discussion about sex with parent

  • Intervention content review

  • Condom skills practice or review

  • Discussion about sex with parent

Family communication plan review, condom knowledge and skills e

aRAP: Risk reduction for Adolescents and Parents.

bTable published in Tolou-Shams et al [25].

cSTI: sexually transmitted infection.

d3Rs: affect management strategies of remove (and return), release, and reframe.

eNot applicable.