Emotion Focused Family Therapy for Parents of Children With Mental Health Difficulties
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age7-15
SponsorUniversity of Guelph
About this trial
Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) is a promising intervention that aims to teach parents advanced skills to support their child's development of emotion skills and increase their adaptive behaviours, potentially leading to improvements in their child's psychological functioning and family functioning more broadly.
This randomized controlled trial (RCT; EFFT vs waitlist control) will (1) test the efficacy of a 6-week group EFFT program on parent and child outcomes and (2) examine maintenance of treatment gains up to four months post-intervention.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Parent of child aged 7 to 15 years old with anxiety, depression, or behavioural challenges
Parent of child is willing to participate in intervention
Parent is living at home with the child
Disqualifiers
Parent or child not proficient enough in speaking/understanding English to complete measures or EFFT intervention components
Parent or child with a severe mental health disorder (e.g., active suicidality and psychosis) is not considered suitable for the trial intervention due to the clinical need for immediate intervention
Parent or child is actively receiving, or due to receive, intensive psychological intervention focused on cognitive and/or behavioural strategies to intervene with emotional or behavioural difficulties
Parent or child has any disabilities in language, speech or hearing that would interfere with their completion of the EFFT and measures
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Emotion Focused Family Therapy
Treatment groups
200 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
Source ClinicalTrials.gov