School-Based Living In Families With Emotions Training

NCT ID: NCT06793878

Last Updated: 2025-01-27

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 40 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-01-29
• Study Completion Date: 2024-07-20

Brief Summary

The overall purpose of this study is to identify adolescents who are at-risk for psychosis, as evidenced by endorsement of mild-to-moderate, sub-syndromal symptoms, and provide them with a potentially preventive intervention aimed at enhancing resilience.

Conditions

Living in Families With Emotions

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Intervention Arm

Living in Families with Emotions (LIFE)

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Living in Families With Emotions

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

This is an 8-week group-based psychosocial intervention teaching adolescents how to recognize their feelings, manage them, and talk about emotions through group discussions, live exercises, and games. The adolescents' caregivers are also provided with the same information, through two live sessions.

Interventions

Living in Families With Emotions

This is an 8-week group-based psychosocial intervention teaching adolescents how to recognize their feelings, manage them, and talk about emotions through group discussions, live exercises, and games. The adolescents' caregivers are also provided with the same information, through two live sessions.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. Male and female adolescents from the Boston area who are in middle school at the time of enrollment;

2. Enrolled in a school where study screening is taking place;

3. Have a parent or legal guardian who is able and willing to provide written informed consent;

4. Competent and willing to provide written informed assent;

5. English language proficiency of parent/guardian and participant;

6. Response of "yes, definitely" or "maybe" to auditory hallucinations, visual hallucinations, or paranoia on the Adult Psychotic-like Symptom Checker (APSS);

7. Able to safely participate in the protocol and appropriate for outpatient level of care, in the opinion of the investigator.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Current DSM-V diagnosis with serious active symptoms (such as active psychotic symptoms, current suicidality, serious active alcohol or substance use, marked deterioration in functioning over the prior month) that necessitates close monitoring or individual therapy and/or inpatient or partial hospitalization;

2. Current enrollment in psychological or behavioral health treatment;

3. Current use of psychotropic medications (other than stimulants) prescribed by a physician;

4. Severe developmental delays (including, but not limited to, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Intellectual Disability, and Down Syndrome).

• Minimum Eligible Age: 10 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 15 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Massachusetts General Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Daphne Holt

Associate Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Massachusetts General Hospital

Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

2019P003154

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id