Autism Spectrum Disorders
Conditions
Brief summary
The purpose of this study is examine emotional regulation and reflective functioning in parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) before and after an educational training (four sessions of group workshops). Our experimental aims are the following: 1) examine parental emotion regulation and reflective functioning in daily life, 2) examine child emotion regulation in their daily life 3)Learn about the training efficacy for ASD parents. This research study will help to formulate innovative treatment methods to reinforce positive emotion regulation and reflective functioning in both ASD children and their parents.
Detailed description
The parents will answer questionnaires and Parent Development Interview (PDI) and the Five Minute Free Speech Sample (FMSS) as well as a number of other questionnaires. Parents will be randomized between intervention group and control group. First session * Introduction * Setting expectations and goals * General explanation of emotions and their development. * How to recognize emotions? Why is it important to recognize them? * Minding parents and child emotions. Second session * Emotion Regulation (general explanation). * Strategic for emotion regulation (Adults) * Strategic for emotion regulation (children) * Parental emotion regulation and the influence on the child emotion regulation * Difficulties in ER among children with ASD Third session * Three steps method: Feel, Think-Rethink, Regulate. * Theory, explanation and implementation. * Discussion: Role play of challenging highly affective parent-child interaction Fourth session: * Three steps method: Feel, Think-Rethink, Regulate. * Theory, explanation and implementation. * Discussion: Role play of challenging highly affective parent-child interaction The parents will do another PDI and will fill up the questionnaires
Interventions
BEHAVIORALemotion regulation training
This is a workshop for parents that help them to understand how to deal with emotions generally and specifically with their ASD children's emotion
Sponsors
Stanford University
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
3 Years to 18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Parents of children with autism ages 3-18
Exclusion criteria
* If they cant understand English they can not be part of the study.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mentalization level | 1 month - 2 months | By the Parent Development Interview (PDI) before and after the workshop we measure the metallization level |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Relationship coherence level | 1 month - 2 months | By the FMSS (5 min speech sample) |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed