Parents Workgroup About Emotion Regulation

NCT02400177 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: IRB32455
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 96
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is examine emotional regulation and reflective functioning in parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) before and after an educational training (four sessions of group workshops). Our experimental aims are the following: 1) examine parental emotion regulation and reflective functioning in daily life, 2) examine child emotion regulation in their daily life 3)Learn about the training efficacy for ASD parents. This research study will help to formulate innovative treatment methods to reinforce positive emotion regulation and reflective functioning in both ASD children and their parents.

Conditions

Autism Spectrum Disorders

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Mentalization level

  By the Parent Development Interview (PDI) before and after the workshop we measure the metallization level

  1 month - 2 months

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Relationship coherence level

  1 month - 2 months

Study Arms (2)

Emotion regulation training

EXPERIMENTAL

This is a 4 sessions group workshop and 1 session individual pre-screening about parental emotion regulation and emotion co-regulation. In this study the facilitators will give information about efficient strategies to regulate parent emotions and their children's emotions.

Behavioral: emotion regulation training

Control group

NO INTERVENTION

In this condition we will take all the measurement before and after the waiting list period. This group will go through the workshop after the measurements will be taken.

Interventions

emotion regulation training BEHAVIORAL

This is a workshop for parents that help them to understand how to deal with emotions generally and specifically with their ASD children's emotion

Also known as: Regulative Parenting

Emotion regulation training

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 3 Years - 18 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Parents of children with autism ages 3-18

You may not qualify if:

• If they cant understand English they can not be part of the study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Stanford University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Stanford University

Stanford, California, 94306, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Child Development Disorders, Pervasive; Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Mental Disorders

Study Officials

• Antonio Hardan, MD

  Stanford University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principle investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 23, 2015
• First Posted: March 26, 2015
• Study Start: March 1, 2015
• Primary Completion: November 1, 2016
• Study Completion: November 1, 2016
• Last Updated: June 1, 2018

Record last verified: 2018-05

Locations

US (1)