Parents Workgroup About Emotion Regulation

May 30, 2018 updated by: Antonio Hardan, Stanford University

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

Intervention / Treatment

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

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

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

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

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
Time Frame: 1 month - 2 months
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
Time Frame: 1 month - 2 months
By the FMSS (5 min speech sample)
1 month - 2 months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Stanford University

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

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

Other Study ID Numbers

  • IRB32455

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

UNDECIDED

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

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