INTERVENTION MANUALS:
"Project TALC" (Teens and Adults Learning to Communicate) -
Parents Living with AIDS

Phase 1 - Taking Care Of Myself

Parents' Curriculum

• Session 1:    Coping with My Illness
• Session 2:    Coping with My Fear
• Session 3:    Coping with Anger
• Session 4:    Coping with Sadness
• Session 5:    Coping with the Meaning of My Illness
• Session 6:    Coping with Whether to Tell
• Session 7:    Coping with Telling Others
• Session 8:    Coping with the Future

Phase 2 - Illness

Parents' Curriculum

• Session 1:    What Are My Children's Needs?
• Session 2:    Who Will Take Care of My Children?
• Session 3:    What Kind of Arrangements Can I Make?
• Session 4:    How Do I Start My Plan?
• Session 5:    How Can I Really Listen To My Children?
• Session 6:    How Can I Tell My Children What I Feel?
• Session 7:    How Should I Deal with Problem Behavior?
• Session 8:    How Can We Create a Positive Atmosphere at Home?
       (Parents and Adolescents)
• Session 9:    How Can We Resolve Conflicts at Home? (Part 1)
       (Parents and Adolescents)
• Session 10:  How Can We Resolve Conflicts at Home? (Part 2)
       (Parents and Adolescents)
• Session 11:  How Can We Work Together on Selecting a Custodian?
       (Parents and Adolescents)
• Session 12:  How Can We Deal with Drugs and Alcohol?
       (Parents and Adolescents)
• Session 13:  How Do I Prevent Pregnancy and Fatherhood?
       (Parents and Adolescents)
• Session 14:  Where Am I in Making a Custody Plan?
• Session 15:  How Can Mothers Encourage Safer Sex?
       (Parents and Adolescents)
• Session 16:  What is the Mother's Legacy and the Youth's Goals?
       (Parents and Adolescents)

Adolescents' Curriculum

• Session 1:    How Do I Make Sense of My Mother's Illness?
• Session 2:    Should I Tell Someone My Mother Has AIDS?
• Session 3:    How Can I Deal with Stigma?
• Session 4:    How Do I Deal with Fear?
• Session 5:    How Can I Cope with Feeling Sad?
• Session 6:    What If I Feel Angry?
• Session 7:    What Can I Do about Feeling Angry?
• Session 14:  How Can We Encourage Safer Sex?

Phase 3 - Adjustment

New Caregivers and Teens' Curriculum

• Session 1:    What Do Adolescents and Caregivers/Parents Need from Each Other?
• Session 2:    What Role Am I Playing and What Is Expected of Me?
• Session 3:    Dealing with Loss and Grief - Part I
• Session 4 (Caregivers): Raising an Adolescent
• Session 4 (Youths): Planning for My Future - Part I
• Session 5:    Dealing with Loss and Grief - Part II
• Session 6:    How Can We Improve Communication - Part I (Effective Expressing)
• Session 7:    Ways of Helping Someone Cope with Loss and Grief
• Session 8:    How Can We Improve Communication - Part II (Active Listening and Responding)
• Session 9 (Caregivers): Caregiver Support
• Session 9 (Youths): How Do I Achieve My Goals?
• Session 10:
• Session 11:  How Can I Cope with Sadness?
• Session 12 (Caregivers): How Should I Deal with Problem Behavior?
• Session 12 (Youths): How Do I Deal with Fear?
• Session 13:  How Do We Practice Safer Sex, Prevent Pregnancy, and Reduce Alcohol and Drug Use?
• Session 14:  How Can We Resolve Conflicts at Home?
• Session 15:  How Can We Create a Positive Atmosphere at Home?
• Session 16:  Looking to the Future Together, What Can We Do?

Young Adults' Curriculum

• Session 1:    How Are Things Going?
• Session 2:    Planning for My Future - Part I
• Session 3:    Dealing with Loss and Grief - Part I
• Session 4:    Where and How Can Young People Get Support?
• Session 5:    Dealing with Loss and Grief - Part II
• Session 6:    Ways of Coping with Loss and Grief
• Session 7:    Planning for My Future (Part II) - How Do I Achieve My Goals?
• Session 8:    Hearing and Getting Heard
• Session 9:    How Can We Deal with Anger?
• Session 10:  Relationships and Sex (Part 1)
• Session 11:  Relationships and Sex (Part 2)
• Session 12:  How Can I Cope with Sadness?
• Session 13:  Pregnancy and Parenthood
• Session 14:  How Do I Deal with Fear?
• Session 15:  How Can I Reduce Substance Use?
• Session 16:  Looking to the Future