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Effectiveness of Emotion Focused Skills Training (EFST)

NCT04885036 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 72

Last updated 2025-06-05

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Summary

Comparing the effectivity of an EFST parent supervision intervention against Treatment As Usual in an outpatient specialist health care clinics Family unit.

Conditions

  • Mental Health Issue

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

EFST intervention

EFST extended intervention is a stand-alone treatment that consist of a two days EFST group course followed by six weekly individual sessions of parental guidance by a licensed EFST therapist. The treatment is given indirectly to the child through work with the parent, thus it might remove or diminish the pressure on the children that suffer from mental health problems to solve their disorder themselves. In this condition a total of 19 hours of EFST treatment is provided.

BEHAVIORAL

Treatment As Usual

In the TAU condition, the families will receive treatment as usual that does not include EFST treatment. Recent research indicates that this is therapy of high quality carried out by highly qualified staff (Tilden et al., 2020; Zahl-Olsen et al., 2020).The therapists are educated psychologists, psychiatrist and family therapists. The TAU intends to be the best treatment for the child/ family based on the type of symptoms presented and requests from the patient and his/her family. We will measure the intensity and type of therapy given in this condition by information from the therapists and investigate that it did not include the main elements of EFST treatment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority

    collaborator OTHER

  • Sorlandet Hospital HF

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Rune H Zahl-Olsen, Ph.D · Senior researcher at Sørlandet Hospital HF

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-12-08
Primary Completion
2024-04-24
Completion
2024-12-22

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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