Clinical trial NCT06592651: Home Within the Heart: a Playful Journey to Strengthen Family Resilience
Official title: Home Within the Heart
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Family Resilience
Short-term Therapy
The Integration of Narrative Therapy and Play Therapy
Keywords: Play therapy
Family Resilience
Reflective function
Situational anxiety
Children's mental well-being
Parental mental well-being
Lead sponsor: University of Haifa
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-09-19
Enrollment: 500
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 70
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE

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.

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 18.
* 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.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 (DASS-21)
timeFrame: Up to 20 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF)
timeFrame: Up to 20 weeks
measure: Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ-18)
timeFrame: Up to 20 weeks
measure: Political Life Events Exposure (PLE)
timeFrame: Up to 20 weeks
measure: Stress Reaction Checklist (SRCL)
timeFrame: Up to 20 weeks
measure: Child-Parent Relationship Scale - Short Form (CPRS-SF)
timeFrame: Up to 20 weeks
measure: Brief Parental Self-Efficacy Scale (BPSES)
timeFrame: Up to 20 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Haifa
country: Israel
facility: University of Haifa
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Haifa
name: Yael Mayer, Phd
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: University of Haifa
name: Yael Enav, Phd
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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