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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 19.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Educ Prev. 2013 Apr;25(2):135–150. doi: 10.1521/aeap.2013.25.2.135

TABLE 1.

SYMPA Intervention Session Content Overview

Session Number Session Title Content
Session 1 Living with HIV Identify personal strengths and challenges in relation to living with HIV.
Session 2 Coping and Problem Solving Identify personal stressors; problem-solving skills; coping styles.
Session 3 Safer Sex I Risk continuum; identify personal risk limits and problem solve triggers to risky behavior.
Session 4 Safer Sex II Proper condom use; knowledge of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs); assertive communication.
Session 5 Social Support and Disclosure Identify types of social support and how to increase positive support; identify personal and environmental factors related to disclosure decisions; identify VIP in support network.
Session 6 Wellbeing and Health Maintenance Identify successes and problem-solve challenges to maintaining behavioral and attitudinal changes; and develop plan, in coordination with VIP, to maintain healthy behaviors after the intervention ends.