Psychiatric Disorders
Conditions
Keywords
Severe and longstanding psychiatric symptoms in children
Brief summary
Children receiving IFT (intensive family therapy) were assessed for symptom profile and global functioning before admission, 3 months after discharge and 1 year after discharge. Children were assessed by parents, children, their teachers and themselves. Parents were assessed by themselves at the same points in time through psychological self-report questionnaires. The study is intended to explore covariates to change in children as well as in parents during (pre-treatment) the treatment and follow-up periods.
Detailed description
IFT is an intensive combinatory family treatment which is child-oriented, and traditionally used in an inpatient family treatment unit in child and adolescent psychiatry. Measures include ones on bonding (PBI), personality traits (NEO-PI), anxiety and depressive symptoms (HADS), attributional tendencies (PAT) and social desirable responding (BIDR). A subgroup was also assessed before a waiting period (pre-treatment).
Interventions
BEHAVIORALIntensive family therapy - inpatient
2-4 weeks (5days) family inpatient assessment and treatment
BEHAVIORALDiagnostic assessment - child and adolescent psychiatry
Sponsors
Haukeland University Hospital
St. Olavs Hospital
Helse Nord-Trøndelag HF
Namsos Hospital
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
6 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Family offered inpatient family treatment in child and adolescent psychiatry.
Exclusion criteria
* inpatient treatment terminated prematurely
Countries
Norway
Outcome results
None listed