Effectiveness of emotion focused skills training for parents: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial in specialist mental health care.

ABSTRACT: Emotion-Focused Skills Training (EFST) is a newly developed manualized skill training program for parents to strengthen emotional bonds between parents and children and improve mental health outcomes in children. Results from several preliminary trials indicate that EFST can be quite effective, but more rigorous methods are needed to affirm the evidence of the program. The primary objective of this study is to compare the effectiveness of EFST to treatment as usual (TAU) in a Norwegian outpatient clinic for child and adolescent mental health. Additionally, the study will examine the basic theoretical assumption underlying EFST that increased parental emotional functioning predicts a decline in children's mental health symptoms.  METHOD : 120 patients will be randomly assigned to either EFS

SUBMITTER: Severinsen L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9261057 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature