TABLE 3.
Siempre Seguiré Intervention Session Content
| Session | Goals | Take-Home Activity |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Orientation to the Group and Discussion about Discrimination and Group Members’ Intersecting Identities | • Orient group members to group/ground rules • Build group cohesion • Provide psychoeducation about systems of oppressions • Discuss how discrimination affects group members’ lives • Describe most important identities |
Tracking Discrimination: Describe any discrimination experiences from ethnicity, immigration status, sexual orientation, and/or HIV-serostatus |
| 2. Discussion of Multiple Identities and Coping with Discrimination | • Discuss men’s experiences living with multiple stigmatized identities • Evaluate specific instances of coping as effective or ineffective based on their own values/goals |
Tracking Discrimination: Same as prior week and add tracking of coping responses |
| 3. Introduction to Ways to Understand Discrimination and Coping with Discrimination I | • Introduce group members to the CBT model • Discuss how to apply CBT model (and chain analysis) to discrimination |
Tracking Discrimination: Same as prior week |
| 4. Ways to Understand Discrimination and Coping with Discrimination II | • Gain further knowledge and experience on understanding discrimination experiences • Define and identify critical links, and vulnerability and resilience factors |
Tracking Discrimination: Same as prior week, and add identification of vulnerability and resilience factors |
| 5. Ways to Understand Discrimination and Coping with Discrimination III | • Identify barriers to effectively coping with discrimination experiences (e.g., internalized stigma and power differentials with perpetrators, such as law enforcement) • Brainstorm and learn strategies for addressing those barriers |
Tracking Discrimination: Same as prior week, with encouragement to use different coping strategies to broaden repertoire |
| 6. Investigating Medical Mistrust | • Orient group members to mistrust as an expectable consequence of discrimination that can affect healthcare engagement and health outcomes | Tracking Discrimination: Same as prior week, focused specifically on the role of mistrust in experiences of and coping with discrimination |
| 7. Getting the Social Support You Need | • Describe support that group members have • Strategize about how to get support for whole self, across identities |
Tracking Discrimination: Same as Week 5 |
| 8. Addressing Structural Discrimination and Review | • Discuss ways to take action and advocate for change through changing societal structures • Review progress |
Prepare for Graduation: same as Week 5 plus reflect on what was learned, what changes were made, and what will be remembered |
| 9. Graduation | • Describe how to practice after group ends | N/A |
Note. Sessions were conducted in Spanish. All sessions began and ended with a relaxation exercise, and except for Session 1, started with a review of the ground rules, a recap of the prior session, and a take-home activity review. Refreshments were served at the beginning of each session, and free-flowing discussions the communal meal helped to encourage group cohesion.