None listed
Conditions
Interventions
Education for parents about coping and management strategies. involves 8 group sessions for both parents - one session per week for 8 weeks. Topics covered include parenting strategies, contingency management, exposure hierarchies for children, and anxiety management for parents. Topics are delivered by a clinical psychologist in a standard behavioural treatment format. Intervention is assisted by handouts for parents.
Sponsors
Macquarie University
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
3 Years to 5 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Participants are included if the child scores 2 standard deviations above the norm on the measure of inhibited behaviour and also demonstrates high behavioural inhibition in a laboratory observation and also has one parent with an anxiety disorder.
Exclusion criteria
Developmental disability Lack of English in parent
Outcome results
None listed