Study: NCT03198429

Intervention type: BEHAVIORAL
Group type: EXPERIMENTAL
Intervention: Caring Dads
Description: Caring Dads is a 15-week group intervention program for fathers, with an intensive intake and two additional individual sessions to set and monitor specific, individualized change goals. Major aspects of innovation in the Caring Dads program include: the use of a motivational approach to engage and retain men in intervention; consistent emphasis on the need to end violence against children's mothers alongside of improving fathering; program content addressing accountability for past abuse and a model of collaborative practice with child protection. The Caring Dads program was developed with a specific commitment to remain focused on the safety and well-being needs of children as a primary goal of intervention and with the recognition that children's safety and well-being is integrally connected to that of their mothers.

Intervention type: BEHAVIORAL
Group type: EXPERIMENTAL
Intervention: Caring Dads
Description: Caring Dads is a 15-week group intervention program for fathers, with an intensive intake and two additional individual sessions to set and monitor specific, individualized change goals. Major aspects of innovation in the Caring Dads program include: the use of a motivational approach to engage and retain men in intervention; consistent emphasis on the need to end violence against children's mothers alongside of improving fathering; program content addressing accountability for past abuse and a model of collaborative practice with child protection. The Caring Dads program was developed with a specific commitment to remain focused on the safety and well-being needs of children as a primary goal of intervention and with the recognition that children's safety and well-being is integrally connected to that of their mothers.

Intervention type: BEHAVIORAL
Group type: EXPERIMENTAL
Intervention: Mothers in Mind
Description: Mothers in Mind uses an attachment and trauma-informed psycho-educational process approach in 12 weekly sessions (10 of which are in group) with mothers. These sessions focus on raising awareness and validation about the experience of violence and the impact it has on mothering. Specifically, MIM increases mothers' awareness of the impact that exposure to family violence/trauma may have had on their infants and themselves as mothers, helps identify and promote positive parenting skills such as sensitivity and responsiveness to infant needs by increasing parental competence, helps promote emotional closeness and decreasing mothers' social isolation, increases mother and infant physical safety, and encourages positive attachment processes.

Intervention type: BEHAVIORAL
Group type: EXPERIMENTAL
Intervention: Mothers in Mind
Description: Mothers in Mind uses an attachment and trauma-informed psycho-educational process approach in 12 weekly sessions (10 of which are in group) with mothers. These sessions focus on raising awareness and validation about the experience of violence and the impact it has on mothering. Specifically, MIM increases mothers' awareness of the impact that exposure to family violence/trauma may have had on their infants and themselves as mothers, helps identify and promote positive parenting skills such as sensitivity and responsiveness to infant needs by increasing parental competence, helps promote emotional closeness and decreasing mothers' social isolation, increases mother and infant physical safety, and encourages positive attachment processes.