Healthy Relationships
Healthy Relationships is a small-group, skills-based behavioral intervention for men and women living with HIV. The intervention focuses on skills building, self-efficacy, and positive expectations about new behaviors. Through group discussions, role plays, videos and skill-building exercises, the intervention helps persons living with HIV develop skills to cope with HIV-related stressors and risky sexual situations. Intervention sessions also enhance decision-making skills for self-disclosing HIV-serostatus to sex partners, and help participants develop and maintain safer sex practices. Participants receive personalized feedback about their own risk practices, and with the help of the intervention group, develop strategies to maintain satisfying relationships while protecting both themselves and their partners. Intervention sessions are conducted separately for men and women in groups of 6–10 participants.
Content Sources
1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2009 Compendium of Evidence-Based HIV Prevention Interventions. Best-Evidence Interventions. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/research/prs/best-evidence-intervention.htm#completelist Accessed March 26, 2011.
2. Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions. http://www.effectiveinterventions.org Accessed March 26, 2011.
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