Emotion Regulation Group Skills Training for Adolescents and Parents

Region Östergötland

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Behavioral Symptoms; Emotional Instability

Treatments: Behavioral: Treatment as usual; Behavioral: Adjunctive group emotion regulation skills training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03900533

2015/264-31

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate if emotion regulation group therapy skills training for adolescents and parents is an efficacious treatment when delivered as adjunctive to treatment as usual compared to a control group consisting of treatment as usual.

Enrollment: 90 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 14 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being enrolled as a patient at the child- and adolescent psychiatric clinic in Linköping
• Having an adult participant joining the skills training
• Being between the ages of 14-17 years
• Having sufficient knowledge of the Swedish language

Exclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia
• Clinical diagnosis of psychosis
• Clinical diagnosis of severe anorexia nervosa
• Clinical diagnosis of severe autism spectrum disorder
• Having a cognitive disability
• Having an ongoing drug or alcohol abuse
• Clinical diagnosis of bipolar disorder
• Insufficient knowledge of the Swedish language

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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90 participants in 2 patient groups

Adjunctive group emotion regulation skills training

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will receive a 7 week group emotion regulation skills training together with parents adjacent to treatment as usual provided by the child- and adolescent psychiatric clinic

Treatment:

Behavioral: Adjunctive group emotion regulation skills training

Treatment as usual (TAU)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants will receive treatment as usual for 7 weeks as provided by the child- and adolescent psychiatric clinic

Treatment:

Behavioral: Treatment as usual