Interventions that Work and Why: A One-Day Training on Evidence-Based HIV Prevention Interventions for People Living with HIV – Slides

Oral presentation that reviewed the need for prevention with positives and major components used in cognitive- behavioral theories. The training discussed effective interventions targeting People Living with HIV (PLH) that can be used in full or partially adapted for a variety of populations and settings. The training practices selected exercises from effective interventions and provides tools to assess agency capacity and readiness to adapt and tailor existing intervention.

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.