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NCT Number: NCT02400177

Parents Workgroup About Emotion Regulation

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Autism Spectrum Disorders Autism Spectrum Disorder Child Development Disorders, Pervasive Mental Disorders Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Age range

3 year–18 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Stanford University

Stanford, California, 94306, United States

About this study

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

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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.

Treatment and study plan

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

Other names: Regulative Parenting

Primary outcomes

  1. Mentalization level

    Time frame: 1 month - 2 months

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

Secondary outcomes

  1. Relationship coherence level

    Time frame: 1 month - 2 months

    By the FMSS (5 min speech sample)

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Stanford University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Parenting Workshop on Emotion Regulation

Important dates

Study start
2015
Primary completion
2016
Study completion
2016
First posted
Mar 26, 2015
Registry last updated
Jun 1, 2018

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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