CARE Mentalizing-Focused Parenting Group Outcomes Study

Montefiore Medicine Academic Health System

Status: Completed

Conditions: Parent-Child Relationship; Parenting

Treatments: Behavioral: Treatment as Usual (TAU); Behavioral: CARE Parenting Group Treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04580459

2020-11240

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary objective of this clinical trial is to evaluate the 12-week mentalizing-focused group parenting intervention, Connecting and Reflecting Experience (CARE), relative to a treatment as usual (TAU) group in an outpatient child mental health clinic.

Enrollment: 78 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parents/caregivers of child receiving mental health services at community child outpatient clinic
• English- or Spanish-speaking

Exclusion criteria

• Parent has severe mental illness or significant cognitive impairment
• Child has significant developmental delay

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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78 participants in 2 patient groups

CARE Parenting Group Treatment

Experimental group

Description:

Participants receive the CARE mentalizing-focused group parenting intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: CARE Parenting Group Treatment

Treatment as Usual (TAU)

Other group

Description:

Participants continue to receive treatment as usual in the outpatient child mental health clinic.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Treatment as Usual (TAU)