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Conditions
Brief summary
This project aims to understand how a parenting intervention influences emotional brain function in adolescent females at risk for depressive disorders. Participants will be randomly assigned to the intervention or the waitlist control group. Parents of adolescents in the intervention group will receive the TINT parenting program, which has shown to be effective in increasing parental emotional socialisation and decreasing adolescents' internalising symptoms. We hypothesise that adolescents whose parents are in the intervention group will show greater improvements in brain function and connectivity in the neural circuits underlying emotion regulation (i.e., greater reductions in amygdala activity and greater increases in prefrontal-amygdala connectivity) at 6-month follow-up compared to adolescents whose parents are in the waitlist control group.
Interventions
NAME
Tuning Into Teens (TINT)
WHY
TINT is an evidence-based adaptation of the Tuning into Kids (TIK) parenting program for adolescents aged 10-18, based on an emotion socialisation theoretical framework. The goal of the TINT program is to teach parents an adaptive style of responding to children’s emotions, called ‘emotion coaching’.
WHAT
The TINT program uses a variety of methods, including a) lecturing and audio visual material to deliver new content, b) specific exercises that allow practicin
NAME Tuning Into Teens (TINT) WHY TINT is an evidence-based adaptation of the Tuning into Kids (TIK) parenting program for adolescents aged 10-18, based on an emotion socialisation theoretical framework. The goal of the TINT program is to teach parents an adaptive style of responding to children’s emotions, called ‘emotion coaching’. WHAT The TINT program uses a variety of methods, including a) lecturing and audio visual material to deliver new content, b) specific exercises that allow practicing a newly learned skill and c) several methods of role play. The topic of the sessions include: 1) Foundations for emotion coaching 2) Connecting and emotional acceptance 3) Building intimacy and showing empathy 4) Emotion coaching worry and sadness 4) Emotion coaching anger 6) Emotion coaching now and in the future. All program materials are readily available resources from the TIK suite, as provided by the author of the program. WHO PROVIDED Facilitators will be research fellows and graduate research students with a background in mental health trained in the TINT program. Debriefing and supervision will be provided weekly by the author of the program. HOW TINT involves an 8-week x 1 hourly one-on-one sessions. We will record the attendance of each participant. Only adolescents whose mothers complete at least 5 out of 8 TINT sessions will be eligible to complete all follow-up components (including the MRI). WHERE The intervention will be offered either online (via Zoom) or in person (Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, The University of Melbourne). TAILORING The intervention is structured and will be delivered in the same way to all parents.
Sponsors
Prof Sarah Whittle
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
10 Years to 12 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
- Female adolescents between the ages of 10 and 12 at the time of participation, and their female primary caregivers - Adolescents have elevated anxiety or depressive symptoms as determined by above the 50th percentile of RCADS scale (self-report) - Adolescents and parents (of adolescents) able to provide informed consent - Adequate comprehension of written and spoken English - Adequate computer knowledge (for online intervention delivery and parent-child interaction recording at home) - Adolescents and parents (of adolescents) agree to receiving information on MRI incidental findings if relevant
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria apply to adolescents, which include: - Current diagnosis of developmental or intellectual disorder - Current use of psychotropic medication - Any contraindications to MRI. For example, metal in the body or implants that cannot be removed (e.g., piercings, orthodontic braces, cardiac pacemakers, or other implantable devices). - Indications of claustrophobia - History of head trauma or loss of consciousness for 5 minutes or more as a result of head injury - Obesity (BMI >30)
Outcome results
None listed