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| Group topic | Information, motivation, and skills taught |
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| (1) Health care participation | Actively participating in your health care, Improving skills for partnering with health care providers; Building ARV adherence skills; HIV and opportunistic infections. |
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| (2) Reducing drug and sex-related risk and negotiating RR with partners | Harms of injecting drugs & harm reduction techniques (e.g., proper needle cleaning); Reducing cue-elicited craving, Harms of unsafe sexual practices & Safer sex techniques (e.g., condom applications); Building skills to communicate about risk reduction with your partner. |
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| (3) Healthy lifestyle choices | Learning coping skills; Stress management skills; Building skills to identify and plan healthy daily activities; Learning & practicing several relaxation techniques; Building skills to identify and plan healthy daily activities |
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| (4) Preventing relapse to risky behavior: Recovery as a journey | Building a road map for the journey of recovery; Relapse prevention skills; Identify early warning signs; Understanding and managing seemingly irrelevant decisions (SID). |
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| (5) Overcoming stigma | Understand stigma and consequences; Decreasing the strength of the “addict” self & connecting with the “core” self; Identifying and strengthening the cognitive, affective, and behavioral attributes of a healthier, non-drug using lifestyle; Building skills to redefine the self as a non-drug user. |
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| (6) Motivation for change; overcoming helplessness | Understanding the sources of helplessness and the consequences; Identify empowering situations; Build skills to assess readiness to change; Increase motivation to pursue a healthy lifestyle. |
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| (7) Moving Beyond Grief | Understanding the stages of grief; Build skills to cope with fears related to HIV; Facing fears and reclaiming control of life; Identifying and prioritizing that which has personal meaning. |
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| (8) Reaching your goals | Learning about memory and concentration and how to improve; Build skills to set goals, establish priorities, and initiate action; Building skills to improve nutirition pyramid; Developing medication adherence skill. |
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