Parents Workgroup About Emotion Regulation

Autism Spectrum Disorders Clinical Trial

Official title:

Parenting Workshop on Emotion Regulation

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02400177
• Other study ID #: IRB32455
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 2015
• Est. completion date: November 2016

Study information

• Verified date: May 2018
• Source: Stanford University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

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

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 96
• Est. completion date: November 2016
• Est. primary completion date: November 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 3 Years to 18 Years

Eligibility

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.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Autism Spectrum Disorders

Intervention

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

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Stanford University	Stanford	California

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Stanford University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Mentalization level	By the Parent Development Interview (PDI) before and after the workshop we measure the metallization level	1 month - 2 months
Secondary	Relationship coherence level	By the FMSS (5 min speech sample)	1 month - 2 months