Development of DBT/Parent Training Group Intervention

University of Oregon

Status: Completed

Conditions: Parenting; Emotional Distress

Treatments: Behavioral: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Skills + Parent Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04740138

11192019.028

Details and patient eligibility

About

This treatment development study is aimed at developing and pilot testing a 24-week remotely delivered group intervention that integrates three evidence-based treatments: 1) Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills - targeting adult emotion dysregulation, 2) Parent Management Training (PMT) - targeting parenting behaviors linked to child behavioral dysregulation, and 3) Emotion Coaching (EC) - targeting parental emotion socialization practices linked to child emotion dysregulation.

The aims of the study are to:

1. Evaluate the feasibility of the intervention, specifically with respect to its acceptability and its implementation with 4 families in which a parent has elevated levels of emotion dysregulation and their child has elevated levels of emotion or behavioral dysregulation.
2. Examine change patterns in parent and child mental health and parenting quality using a Single Case Experimental Design (SCED) to evaluate both pre-post and weekly changes in these outcomes.

Enrollment: 3 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• parent must be 18+ years of age
• parent must have at least partial custody of a 3-6 year old child
• neither parent nor child may have any known developmental disability
• parent must be proficient in English
• parent must endorse elevated emotion dysregulation and report their child meets a cutoff for emotional and/or behavioral difficulties.
• parent must have access to the internet and Zoom software

Exclusion criteria

• parent with developmental disability
• psychotic disorder
• actively suicidal with an active plan

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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3 participants in 1 patient group

DBT Skills + Parent Training

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Skills + Parent Training