Exploring the Impact of an Integrated Trauma-Informed HIV and Vocational Intervention for Black/African American Women Living with HIV.

Given the increased recognition of the role of social determinants of health on the prevalence of HIV in the United States, interventions that incorporate and address social determinants of HIV are essential. In response to the health disparities facing Black/African American women living with HIV, HIV activists and mental health specialists developed an innovative integrated HIV prevention and vocational development intervention, Common Threads, that underscores and addresses key economic and other social determinants of health experienced by Black/African American women within a trauma-informed care (TIC) framework. This research study applied grounded theory methods to conduct a qualitative study of Common Threads based on interviews with 21 women who participated in the Common Threads intervention.

A solution-focused approach to psychiatric rehabilitation.

This paper relates the values of Psychiatric Rehabilitation (PsyR) to the strategies of solution-focused therapy (SFT), exploring the applicability of SFT in a PsyR setting. A review of the literature demonstrates that SFT complements the values and principles of PsyR and is a viable course of intervention throughout recovery for empowering persons with severe mental illness. The specific application of SFT to supervision and case management is examined.