AEGiS-APPJ: A Training Model of Group Therapy with an HIV-Seropositive Population

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A Training Model of Group Therapy with an HIV-Seropositive Population

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 1 (1989): 51-55
Bernadette Matthews and Juni Bowes

In a unique, cooperative arrangement with the New Orleans AIDS Project, the New Orleans AIDS Task Force has worked to establish a number of support groups to meet the common needs of people who have been touched by AIDS and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. The group brought together for this study was designed to function as a training model for future groups. The model, called a Living Well Support Group, was developed as a psychosocial support/educational group to deal with topics of concern to seropositive individuals and people with AIDS. Our goal in forming the Living Well Support Group was to provide a real life setting in which to study the effect of mutual support and sharing in a confidential and secure atmosphere. It was our intent to create a group under conditions that would have greater external validity and could be applied in clinical settings as well.
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