Uitzendgerelateerd gezinsdisfunctioneren bij veteranengezinnen Severe affected deployment-related family functioning within veteran families
Conditions
Interventions
Multi-family therapy (MFT), part of the usual care at the participating sites,
is a comprehensive group intervention targeting families with children and aims
to elicit behavioural changes in family
Sponsors
Universiteit Utrecht
Eligibility
Age
12 Years to 99 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Parents aged >18 2. One parent is being deployed (i.e. is a veteran) 3. Family disfunctioning: the totalscore on the SCORE-15 (a family functioning measure), as filled in by the veteran, is 37.5 or above 4. Parents having at least one child living with them (aged
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Acute suicidality according to the DSM-5 2. Current psychotic disorder 3. Current abuse of partner or child(ren) 4. Neurological-, physical-, cognitive-, or intellectual deficits among a family member which interferes with MFT group participation. 5. Families receiving any form of couple, family, or parenting related therapy 6. Both parents have been deployed.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Family functioning as measured using the SCORE-15 which is filled in by the veteran. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Secundary measures include family indices (family functioning as noted by the partner, child functioning reported by both parents, and couple functioning as noted by both parents) and outcomes on the level of the individual veteran (PTSD symptomatology, emotion regulation, and mentalization). | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Outcome results
None listed