Home Within the Heart: a Playful Journey to Strengthen Family Resilience

University of Haifa

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: The Integration of Narrative Therapy and Play Therapy; Family Resilience; Short-term Therapy

Treatments: Behavioral: Play Therapy Workshop

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06592651

003/24

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary aim of this clinical trial is to enhance open and secure communication within the family, strengthen the parent-child bond, and reinforce feelings of safety and stability, and strengthen family resilience.

In addition,the investigators want to assess the effectiveness of a short-term therapeutic workshop in enhancing reflective functioning, beliefs about the malleability of emotions, the reported use of effective emotional regulation strategies, and the perceived parental self-efficacy and child behavior.

Full description

The participants will:

Complete questionnaires and participate in clinical interviews regarding their relationship with their children and their mental functioning prior to the workshop.

The intervention group will engage in a 4-session workshop (held once a week) facilitated practitioners from various therapeutic disciplines, including clinical, educational, and developmental psychologists, as well as group facilitators.

During each session, observers document the quality of the interaction between the parent and child, focusing on aspects such as emotion, responsiveness, encouragement, and instruction.

After the workshop, participants will again complete questionnaires.

Enrollment: 500 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

A parent who have been evacuated from war zones in the northern and southern regions of the country, and has a child of ages 3-6.

Exclusion criteria

• A parent under the age of 18.
• A parent who have not been evacuated from war zones.
• A parent who has a child under 3 years of age, or above 6 years of age.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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500 participants in 1 patient group

Parental Reflective Functioning intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

participants will attend four psycho-educational workshop sessions, where they will learn strategies for emotion regulation and mentalization to enhance open and secure communication within the family, strengthen the parent-child bond, and reinforce feelings of safety and stability.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Play Therapy Workshop