Parents Workgroup About Emotion Regulation

NCT ID: NCT02400177

Last Updated: 2018-06-01

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

96 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-03-31

Study Completion Date

2016-11-30

Brief Summary

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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.

Detailed Description

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The parents will answer questionnaires and Parent Development Interview (PDI) and the Five Minute Free Speech Sample (FMSS) as well as a number of other questionnaires.

Parents will be randomized between intervention group and control group. First session

* Introduction
* Setting expectations and goals
* General explanation of emotions and their development.
* How to recognize emotions? Why is it important to recognize them?
* Minding parents and child emotions. Second session
* Emotion Regulation (general explanation).
* Strategic for emotion regulation (Adults)
* Strategic for emotion regulation (children)
* Parental emotion regulation and the influence on the child emotion regulation
* Difficulties in ER among children with ASD Third session
* Three steps method: Feel, Think-Rethink, Regulate.
* Theory, explanation and implementation.
* Discussion: Role play of challenging highly affective parent-child interaction

Fourth session:

* Three steps method: Feel, Think-Rethink, Regulate.
* Theory, explanation and implementation.
* Discussion: Role play of challenging highly affective parent-child interaction The parents will do another PDI and will fill up the questionnaires

Conditions

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Autism Spectrum Disorders

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Emotion regulation training

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.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

emotion regulation training

Intervention Type 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

Control group

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.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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emotion regulation training

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

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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Regulative Parenting

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Parents of children with autism ages 3-18

Exclusion Criteria

* If they cant understand English they can not be part of the study.
Minimum Eligible Age

3 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Stanford University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Antonio Hardan

Principle investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Antonio Hardan, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Stanford University

Locations

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Stanford University

Stanford, California, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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IRB32455

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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