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A Postpartum Adaptation Study of the Connecting and Reflecting Experience Parenting Program

NCT06042166 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 17

Last updated 2025-11-25

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Experiencing postpartum mood and/or anxiety disorders (like postpartum depression; PMADs) can make parenting challenging, but group therapy may help both these parents and their babies. This study will test whether postpartum parents with PMADs find a 12-session parenting group therapy to be likable, doable, and helpful for mental health, parenting stress, and relationship with their infant. The therapy that is being tested is called the Connecting and Reflecting Experience (CARE) parenting program, which has not yet been used specifically with postpartum parents with PMADs, but has been found to be appealing and helpful among parents/caregivers of older children with mental health conditions. CARE focuses on parents' ability to consider how their own and their children's thoughts, feelings, intentions, and other mental states shape behavior and parent-child relationships. Participants in the study will be asked to fill out surveys before, during, and after participating in the group therapy. Adults may be eligible to participate in the study if they gave birth to an infant who is now 3 to 12 months old, are receiving postpartum medical and/or mental health care at Montefiore Medical Center, and have experienced postpartum depression and/or anxiety.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Connecting and Reflecting Experience (CARE) Program

The intervention consists of a 12-session mentalizing-focused parenting group, which will involve weekly one-hour telehealth therapy sessions with up to 7 postpartum parents per group and 1 to 2 facilitators. CARE is a therapy focused on parents' reflective capacity, or the ability to consider how our own and our children's thoughts, feelings, intentions, and other mental states shape behavior and parent-child relationships.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • American Psychological Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Montefiore Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Amanda Zayde, Psy.D. · Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-08-16
Primary Completion
2025-11-11
Completion
2025-11-11

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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