Program for Caregivers Involved With Mental Health Services

Yale University

Status and phase: Completed; Early Phase 1

Conditions: Mental Illness

Treatments: Behavioral: Mentalization based therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01872585

1004006576

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this two-year pilot study is to adapt a 12-week attachment-based parenting intervention for implementation with female adult caregivers who have or are at risk for long-term interpersonal conflict with family members, children, or significant others and are caring for a child between the ages of birth and 7 years.

Full description

The purpose of this two-year pilot study is to adapt a 12-week attachment-based parenting intervention (Parenting from the Inside Out or PIO) originally developed for substance abusing mothers (as part of an ongoing NIDA-funded treatment development study; R01 DA17294) for implementation with female adult caregivers who have or are at risk for long-term interpersonal conflict with family members, children, or significant others and are caring for a child between the ages of birth and 7 years. The PIO intervention involves 12-24 weekly 1 hour individual therapy sessions with Masters level therapists who are trained and supervised by Dr. Suchman (the Principal Investigator) in the PIO approach.

Enrollment: 18 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• receive psychiatric services through the adult or young adult treatment team at the West Haven Mental Health Clinic
• have a child receiving psychiatric services through the child treatment team at the West Haven Mental Health Clinic
• express interest in receiving a parent intervention at the West Haven Mental Health Clinic

Exclusion criteria

• severe mental health problems (e.g., suicidal, homicidal, psychosis, thought disorder)
• severely cognitively impaired
• have psychiatric or substance-related symptoms requiring inpatient hospitalization or ambulatory detoxification
• are not fluent in English
• child has a serious illness or significant developmental delay (e.g., cognitive, language, or motor)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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18 participants in 1 patient group

Mentalization based therapy

Experimental group

Description:

Women who are the primary caregivers of a child between the ages of 0-7 years and are involved with mental health services for themselves or a child.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mentalization based therapy