Showing papers in "Families, Systems, & Health in 2001"

HIV Prevention for Intimate Couples: A Relationship-Based Model

Abstract: HIV prevention programs targeted to heterosexuals have most often been delivered in individual or group modalities that principally focus on women as the agents of change. To date, most HIV risk-reduction interventions are not specifically designed to address issues involving intimate couples or to include both partners. Approaches which take into account relationship dynamics and communication patterns are needed to enable women to initiate or sustain condom use with their main steady partners. In this paper, we present a relationship-based HIV intervention, Project Connect, delivered to 217 African American and Latino heterosexual couples recruited from primary healthcare settings. The paper will first discuss the rationale and the conceptual framework underlying the intervention and then elaborate on the intervention components. Finally, lessons learned in the implementation of the project and implications of Project Connect to future practice and policy making for HIV interventions for heterosexual couples will be discussed.

Using Triangulation Concepts to Understand the Doctor-Patient-Family Relationship

Abstract: program, we have found that the concept of triangulation is a useful, easily graspable way of introducing ideas about such multifaceted relationships, and of illustrating certain classic dysfunctional patterns that may arise within interactions. This paper describes a conceptual model of triangles in primary care and a curriculum suggestion for small group conference formats.