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Table 2 Promoting Resilience in Stress Management Intervention Content

From: The Promoting Resilience in Stress Management (PRISM) intervention for adolescents and young adults receiving hematopoietic cell transplantation: a randomized controlled trial protocol

Session

Skills Taught During Session

Format

1. Managing stress

Mindfulness techniques, relaxation strategies

One on one

2. Goal setting

Setting specific, realistic, desirable goals; planning for roadblocks

 

3. Positive reframing

Recognizing negative self-talk; replacing it with realistic, positive, manageable thoughts

 

4. Meaning making

Identifying benefits, purpose, meaning, or legacy from cancer experience

 

5. Coming together

Discussion about what was learned, what helped, what loved ones can do to help

Family meeting

6. Boosters

Check-in visits to practice, further develop, and track skills

One on one

7. Cheat sheets

Between-session exercises to practice, further develop, and track skills

Paper and pencil or PRISM App

  1. Sessions are delivered approximately every 1–2 weeks, arranged in advance in conjunction with patient clinical and hospital visits. Sessions 5 & 6 are offered to all participants as optional opportunities for continuing to practice and/or share skills