We conducted a cross-sectional survey to examine various pathways of resilience among HIV-positive youth living within informal settlements outside of Nairobi, Kenya. Relationships between variables were modelled and evaluated using linear regression analysis and structural equational modelling. We identified unique pathways linking social support, adverse childhood experiences, and HIV stigma to general health and resilience. These results may provide valuable insights for developing targeted intervention strategies to improve treatment adherence and HIV management in this population.
Oral presentation by Catherine Sandhofer at the Learning Session: HIV Exposed Children and Early Child Development on March 7, 2019 that discusses the impact of parent-child interactions in child development. The presentation describes a large variation in language environments that affects development and the positive results in the mathematical ability of children due to frequency of math talk between mothers and preschoolers.
Skills building intervention that aims to identify a skill that the child wants to develop, set a goal involving the talent or skill he/she wants to develop, and start practicing mastering small steps needed until each goal is achieved.
Skills building intervention that aims to identify target behavior or emotion to monitor, to develop a rating scale to increase accuracy of the observations, and to create a recording procedure.
Skills building intervention to provide the caregiver with a convenient, systematic, immediate, and powerful consequence for misbehavior. The more frequent the behavior, the more caregiver attention and monitoring will need to occur, and child’s developmental stage: younger children or children with developmental delays will require simpler penalty programs with fewer target behaviors than will older children.
Skills building intervention that aims to present the idea that staying calm and relaxing is a good way to affect the way we feel, to demonstrate what relaxation feels like to children who have difficulty relaxing, and to increase a child’s awareness about his or her own tension so that relaxation skills can be applied at
the proper time.
Skills building intervention that aims to provide children with a systematic way to negotiate problems and to consider alternative solutions to situations. Familiarize the child with this problem-solving process by starting with your own problem and allow the child to help you in working through the problem solving steps.
Skills building intervention that aims to inform the caregiver about the value of praise, to provide the caregiver with strategies to increase the child’s appropriate behavior, and to encourage participation in treatment.