Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT CARE) Project Intervention – Manual

This intervention manual reflects the UCLA Semel Institute-Center for Community Health new strategy to take a holistic approach to help MMT service providers and clients address obstacles and challenges in order to enhance the effectiveness of MMT programs through providing intervention programs for service providers at the selected MMT clinics in Sichuan Province, China. The ultimate goal of the intervention is to improve the physical health and mental health, enhance treatment adherence and reduce HIV risk for the participating MMT clients

TEA intervention manual

The TEA (Together for Empowerment Activities) intervention for HIV-affected families in Anhui of China is delivered at three levels simultaneously: 1) TEA Gathering (small group for parent living with HIV [PLH] and family members at the individual level), 2) TEA Time (home-based family activities with children that accompany each TEA Gathering at the family level), and 3) TEA Garden (community events that build social integration for HIV-affected families). The theoretical framework underlying the intervention sessions.

Practice Elements: Skill Building

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.

Practice Elements: Response Cost

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.

Practice Elements: Self-Monitoring

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.

Practice Elements: Problem Solving

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.

Practice Elements: Relaxation

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.

Practice Elements: Praise

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.