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. |