CBCT for Parents of Children With Autism

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if caregivers of children with a developmental delay experience a decrease in stress by participating in a meditation/cognitive training protocol.

Conditions

• Stress

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive Based Compassion Training Session: Developing Attention and Stability of Mind

Completed at Week 1. Initial meditation exercises will be described and practiced to train attention skills (on breath) and create mental stability.

BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive Based Compassion Training Session: Cultivating Insight into the Nature of Mental Experience

Completed at Week 2. Exercises to develop mindfulness will continue in order to promote mental stability and clarity.

BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive Based Compassion Training Session: Self-compassion

Completed at Week 3: Techniques to analyze mental processes are introduced.

BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive Based Compassion Training Session: Cultivating Equanimity

Completed at Week 4. Further analysis of mental processes.

BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive Based Compassion Training Session: Developing Appreciation and Gratitude for Others

Completed at Week 5. A reflection of all the things that bring us well-being are provided by or dependent upon other beings is encouraged.

BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive Based Compassion Training Session: Developing Affection and Empathy

Completed at Week 6. The following concepts are presented and carefully considered: (1) cooperation and solidarity is essential for our survival and flourishing, as we are all extremely vulnerable and need each other; (2) hate and selfishness only cause suffering to others and ourselves and can only be prevented by cultivating sincere affection for others.

BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive Based Compassion Training Session: Realizing Wishing and Aspiring Compassion

Completed at Week 7. Participants are invited to deepen their reflection on the reasons for gratitude, empathy, and affection for others, and see how they lead to feelings of compassion, or the wish for others to be free from suffering.

BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive Based Compassion Training Session: Realizing Active Compassion

Completed at Week 8. The strategies used until this point will be reviewed in order to move from the wish for others to be free of suffering, toward the sense that we want to and must take steps to relieve their suffering.

BEHAVIORAL

Meditation Session

20 minute session completed weekly after the Cognitive Training Session

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Emory University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Samuel Fernandez-Carriba, PhD · Emory University Assistant Professor

Study Design

Allocation

NA

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2014-06-30

Primary Completion

2016-02-11

Completion

2016-02-11

Countries

• United States

Study Locations