“…In recent years, scholars, mainly in adult education, extended the study of transformative experiences to individuals diagnosed with HIV (Baumgartner, 2000;Courtenay, Merriam, & Reeves, 1998) and transformational dialogue (Foss & Foss, 2001 The present study investigates the transformation perspective, an approach applied to PLWHAs by Courtenay, Merriam, Reeves, and Baumgartner (2000) Q4 .…”