Home Within the Heart
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Family Resilience
- Sponsor
- University of Haifa
- Enrollment
- 500
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 (DASS-21)
- Status
- Recruiting
- Last Updated
- last year
Overview
Brief Summary
The primary aim of this clinical trial is to enhance open and secure communication within the family, strengthen the parent-child bond, and reinforce feelings of safety and stability, and strengthen family resilience.
In addition,the investigators want to assess the effectiveness of a short-term therapeutic workshop in enhancing reflective functioning, beliefs about the malleability of emotions, the reported use of effective emotional regulation strategies, and the perceived parental self-efficacy and child behavior.
Detailed Description
The participants will: Complete questionnaires and participate in clinical interviews regarding their relationship with their children and their mental functioning prior to the workshop. The intervention group will engage in a 4-session workshop (held once a week) facilitated practitioners from various therapeutic disciplines, including clinical, educational, and developmental psychologists, as well as group facilitators. During each session, observers document the quality of the interaction between the parent and child, focusing on aspects such as emotion, responsiveness, encouragement, and instruction. After the workshop, participants will again complete questionnaires.
Investigators
Yael Enav
Head of Emotiinal Regulation and Mentalization Lab
University of Haifa
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •A parent who have been evacuated from war zones in the northern and southern regions of the country, and has a child of ages 3-6.
Exclusion Criteria
- •A parent under the age of
- •A parent who have not been evacuated from war zones.
- •A parent who has a child under 3 years of age, or above 6 years of age.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 (DASS-21)
Time Frame: Up to 20 weeks
DASS-21 is a widely used psychological assessment tool designed to measure the emotional states of depression, anxiety, and stress.Each item is scored on a 4-point Likert scale ranging from 0 ("Did not apply to me at all") to 3 ("Applied to me very much or most of the time"). The scores for each subscale are summed and then multiplied by 2 to maintain consistency with the original DASS-42 scores.
Secondary Outcomes
- Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF)(Up to 20 weeks)
- Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ-18)(Up to 20 weeks)
- Political Life Events Exposure (PLE)(Up to 20 weeks)
- Stress Reaction Checklist (SRCL)(Up to 20 weeks)
- Child-Parent Relationship Scale - Short Form (CPRS-SF)(Up to 20 weeks)
- Brief Parental Self-Efficacy Scale (BPSES)(Up to 20 weeks)