Behavioral Health Counselor - Intervention for Virologic suppression in Youth

University of California San Francisco, United States

Updated: 4 months ago
Location: San Francisco, CALIFORNIA

Details

Posted: 07-Jan-24

Location: San Francisco, California

Type: Full-time

Salary: Open

Categories:


Staff/Administrative

Internal Number: 75944BR


In the US, youth and young adults living with HIV (YLWH) have the lowest level of virologic suppression compared to older age groups and experience significant health disparities with regard to HIV treatment initiation and clinical outcomes. Additionally, mental health (MH) and substance use (SU) impact every step of the HIV care continuum from diagnosis to virologic suppression and exacerbate socioeconomic challenges of linkage and sustained access to healthcare.
The iVY (Intervention for Virologic suppression in Youth) study is an NIH-funded randomized clinical trial that aims to test the efficacy of a "youth-friendly" technology-based intervention among YLWH (18-29 years old) in CA. This piloted and protocolized intervention combines: (1) brief weekly sessions with a counselor via a video-chat platform (video-counseling) to discuss mental health, substance use, HIV care engagement, and other barriers to care; and (2) a mobile health application (app) to address barriers such as ART forgetfulness and social isolation.
The intervention's goal is to identify those who require more MH, SU, and/or HIV-related counseling; provide information, motivation, and behavioral skills for dealing with MH, SU, and HIV care engagement challenges to address mild-moderate MH symptoms or low-moderate levels of SU; and assist with linking/ relinking to more extensive MH, SU, and/or HIV treatment, as needed
Video-counseling will be delivered by the Behavioral Health Counselor, who will be trained and receive clinical supervision/consultation from a licensed clinical psychologist. The counselor will use their skills to provide culturally appropriate, trauma-informed, evidence-based individual counseling and crisis intervention. They will also support research activities such as refining the intervention manual, developing treatment checklists, creating and implementing research procedures, preparing manuscripts for publication, and developing presentations or presenting data, as needed.
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