Alvares NP; International Conference on AIDS.

Int Conf AIDS. 2002 Jul 7-12; 14: abstract no. F12411.

STD/AIDS Cordination of Sao Paulo city health departament, Sao Paulo, Brazil

ISSUES: To expand the participants consciousness in relation to their own process of personal development and their way of contacting other people end giving meaning to the interpersonal relations, optimizing their choices and capacity of giving meaning to their lives and experiences, raising their level of health and integrating the multiple dimensions of their being: sensorial, affective, intellectual, social and spiritual. Descr:Population: 30 to 50 years old HIV positive homosexual male patients followed by professionals of the policlinic .Periodicity: one and a half hour per week. It is a closed group: the participant take over the compromise of participate for a predefined period of time. The group begins with several kinds of body expression and relaxing activities. Then, activities to share experiences such as reading poems/stories, artistic and dramatizing practices take place. The idea is that through these experiences each participant and the group as a whole might experience several kinds of contact, expression and dialog with other people and with their own questions. The themes of the experiences can be elected during their development or they can be chosen previously. The experiences always break out thoughts and feelings that will be object of work, widening the consciousness of personal and grouping development. At the end of each meeting each participant share what he learned during the process. L. learned: The group work makes possible the enhancement of expression and relationship capacity of each participant though the experiment of "dialoging with other people and with himself". This is fundamental to diminish his vulnerability in relation to STD/AIDS.Recomm:When approaching relationship and economics difficulties, personal abilities and somatic manifestations, the medical treatment is optimized and the patient capacity of dealing with his self-care and self-support is amplified, as well as his capacity of giving a new meaning to his life.

Publication Types:

• Meeting Abstracts

Keywords:

• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• Human Development
• Humans
• Interpersonal Relations
• Life
• Male
• Psychotherapy, Group
• Quality of Life
• Self Care
• Work

Other ID:

• GWAIDS0020431

UI: 102259479

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