GROUP PROPOSAL PROJECT

Group Proposal Project - HIV Psycho-Educational Group

Group Proposal Project - HIV Psycho-Educational Group

1st session - Introduction

Precautions for day-to-day living and sex

How the immune system functions, drugs act, benefits and side effects of treatments

New treatment perspectives

Established importance of every patient in society

Rehabilitation activities

2nd session - Medical Complications

HIV vaccination

Planning a family and HIV, assisted reproduction

Briefing about physical pain and psychological pain

3rd session - Treatment Process And Recovery

Travelling and HIV

HIV, HBV and HCV confections

Post-exposure preventive treatment

4th session - Social and Ethical Aspects

Patient privacy

Telling a partner about your diagnosis

Positive and a healthy conclusion

Session I: Introduction

The session starts with the group leader explaining the reasons for assembling, the objectives of the program and a brief introduction of each member to the group. The patients would be encouraged to narrate their experiences of suffering from HIV and being treated. The relevance of increasing the awareness and knowledge of the nature of dependence and recovery process will also be discussed, for example a diabetic patient who needs to be educated about the illness, diet control, blood sugar levels, and side effects and overdosing of drugs etc. for successful treatment (Shacham, Reece, Ong'or, Omollo, Monahan & Ojwang, 2008). Afterwards, each patient would be invited to share his or her feelings and emotions. With the sharing of feelings of all patients, group leader starts giving briefing about all the precautions that should be taken in order to keep HIV at far distant from our society, briefing starts from the standard living of people and ends on the precautions for intercourse that should be taken to avoid HIV. Also all new treatments that are available in market for HIV would be discussed. Drugs are not a treatment of HIV, this is a basically emphasized reason that HIV patient feels for him or herself a thrown out personality from this society who is not accepted here. The other three sessions are designed to mitigate this perception (Shacham, Reece, Ong'or, Omollo, Monahan & Ojwang, 2008). Therapist tries to make them feel an integral part of society who is equally contributor of our system. To make them feel better off some activities are also planned to conduct.

HIV/AIDS is a slowly progressive infectious disease characterized by disorders of the immune system and the sum of the different clinical symptoms. HIV belongs to a group of slow infections. HIV for a long time and retains its vitality in the blood plasma, devoid of cellular elements. It was probably connected with this extraordinary "productive" ways of transmission through a syringe. Viruses are killed by boiling in 1 min, resistant to sunlight and freezing. The virus can be transmitted by having unprotected sex, transfusion of infected blood and through infected blood, instruments, and objects, from mother to fetus (Cassidy, 2010). In the spread of AIDS are the most dangerous individuals of both sexes, especially at risk, as well as homosexuals. HIV is not transmitted by insect bites, and casual contact, through saliva. Sexually transmitted diseases (chlamydia, syphilis, ureaplasmosis, trichomoniasis, mycoplasmosis, and ...