Parents Workgroup About Emotion Regulation

Parenting Workshop on 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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: emotion regulation training

Detailed Description

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

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 96
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • California
    • Stanford, California, United States, 94306
      • Stanford University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 3 years to 18 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

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.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: 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.	Behavioral: 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; Other Names: Regulative Parenting
No Intervention: 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.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Mentalization level	By the Parent Development Interview (PDI) before and after the workshop we measure the metallization level	1 month - 2 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Relationship coherence level	By the FMSS (5 min speech sample)	1 month - 2 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Stanford University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: March 1, 2015
• Primary Completion (Actual): November 1, 2016
• Study Completion (Actual): November 1, 2016

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 23, 2015
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 23, 2015
• First Posted (Estimate): March 26, 2015

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): June 1, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 30, 2018
• Last Verified: May 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Child Development Disorders, Pervasive; Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Other Study ID Numbers: IRB32455

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED