Holding a Foster Child's Mind in Mind
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Attachment Disorder
- Sponsor
- VIVE - The Danish Center for Social Science Research
- Enrollment
- 175
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Child mental health
- Status
- Active, not recruiting
- Last Updated
- last year
Overview
Brief Summary
The aim of this study is to examine the effects of Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT) for foster families in Denmark on child mental health and well-being, parental stress, mental health, and reflective function, parental mind-mindedness and the parent-child relationship.
Detailed Description
Children placed in foster care are psychologically and physically vulnerable and show more social, developmental, and behavioral problems than children living with their family of origin. Many foster parents struggle to care for these children, some of whom have experienced serious adversity at a young age. The study examines the effects of Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT) in a cluster-randomized controlled trial with 175 foster families with children aged 4-17 years in 10 Danish municipalities.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Any kind of foster family (including professional and kinship care) with at least one full-time foster child aged 4-17 years.
- •Elevated child symptoms as measured by X scales and
- •An expressed need for support from either the foster parents or the foster child.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Foster families in which there are no reported difficulties and concerns regarding the child or the placement.
- •Foster families in which the child was placed with the family within the last X months
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Child mental health
Time Frame: post-intervention (16 weeks)
The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) measures behavioral and emotional problems in children and adolescents. The CBCL consists of 113 questions, scored on a three-point Likert scale (0=absent, 1= occurs sometimes, 2=occurs often). The CBCL is completed by foster parents for all children in the trial, and the Youth Self-Report (YSR) is completed by the foster children or adolescents aged 11 and above. The CBCL is widely used and has proven to be a useful tool for detecting psychopathology in children and shows good results regarding both validity and reliability
Secondary Outcomes
- Parent-child interaction(post-intervention (16 weeks))
- Child Mental health(Follow-up (6 months post-intervention))
- Attachment(post-intervention (16 weeks))
- Parent mental health(follow-up (6 months post-intervention))
- Child well-being(follow-up (6 months post-intervention))
- Parental reflective function(follow-up (6 months post-intervention))
- Parental stress(follow-up (6 months post-intervention))
- Parental mind-mindedness(follow-up (6 months post-intervention))
- Perception of the family(follow-up (6 months post-intervention))