Tuning Relationships with Music therapy for traumatised parents and adolescents experiencing conflict in their relationship : An Implementation Study.

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: parent-adolescent conflict; Mental Health - Other mental health disorders

• Registration Number: ACTRN12622000721707
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Melbourne

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2022-05-19
• Last Update Posted: 26 September 2022

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 130

Inclusion Criteria

1. Parents and adolescents (10 - 18 years) who have experienced sexual and/or physical violence, who are receiving counselling from the Gippsland Centre Against Sexual Assault.
2. Counsellors employed by the Gippsland Centre Against Sexual Assault.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Parents and adolescents: Current exposure to or perpetration of sexual and/or physical violence including in the context of child custody disputes involving the adolescent participating in the study, homelessness, untreated psychosis, severe intellectual disability or acquired brain injury, profound hearing loss, inability to speak or understand English.
2. Counsellors: No exclusion criteria provided they are employed in a counselling role at GCASA..

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
change in parent-adolescent conflict as measured by the Conflict Behaviour Questionnaire (Print et al., 1979), completed by both parent and adolescent<br><br>[Baseline and 4 months after intervention commencement];changes in parent reactivity and responsiveness as measured by the the Assessment 0f Responsivity and Reactivity Scale (Colegrove and Havighurst, 2016).[Baseline and 4 months after intervention commencement];Counsellors' experiences of implementing Tuning Relationships with Music[completion of questionnaire and semi-structured interview 1 month after counsellors have completed implementing TRM. The questionnaire and semi-structured interview were designed specifically for this study.]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
change in adolescent mental health, as measured by the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (Goodman, 1997), completed by both parent and adolescent[Baseline and 4 months after intervention commencement];change in parent mental health as measured by the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale - short form (Henry and Crawford, 2005)[Baseline and 4 months after intervention commencement];changes in parent and adolescent emotion regulation - short form (Kaufman et al., 2015), to be completed by parent and adolescent[Baseline and 4 months after intervention commencement];changes in parent responsiveness to their adolescent's emotions, measured by the Emotions as a Child Self-Rating Measure (Magai, 1996), completed by parent and adolescent[Baseline and 4 months after intervention commencement]