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Unfolding the Wisdom Within: CFT for Adolescents in Residential Care

NCT06219057 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2024-01-23

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Summary

Residential care youth show extensive mental health intervention needs due to history of maltreatment and embedded characteristics of residential placement, leading to harmful and cumulative effects throughout development, linked to internalizing and externalizing difficulties. However, existing interventions show limited suitability and poor randomized effectiveness evaluation.

To overcome these shortcomings, a new compassion-based program for adolescents in residential care will be developed. A non-randomized trial will be run, testing the program´s effects over adolescents' psychological functioning and investigating whether changes in compassion are associated with changes over time in mental health difficulties. The moderator effect of age, gender and maltreatment history will be investigated.

Findings intend to: improve mental-health of youth in residential care, provide an evidence-based intervention to be delivered in residential care settings, increase empirical support of compassion-based interventions, amplifying its scope of delivery.

Conditions

  • Adolescent Behavior
  • Adolescent - Emotional Problem

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

The Wise Adolescent

The program encompasses 20 individual weekly sessions manualized. Its main objective is to help adolescents to create affiliative feelings towards themselves and to develop a more compassionate inner voice. Sessions are organized across 6 main domains: (1) placing ourselves in the challenges of life: evolutionary roots of our mind, how social circumstances and life experiences shape us; the 3-affect regulation systems; (2) understanding difficulties: compassion focused therapy case formulation; (3) understanding compassion: the three flows of compassion, its three pillars (caring commitment, wisdom, strength and courage); (4) compassionate mind training: cultivating the compassion skills (compassionate attention, imagery, reasoning, and behavior); (5) working with difficulties: fears, blocks and resistances to compassion; multiple selves; shame and self-criticism; (6) sustaining a compassionate mind: reviewing the gains and relapse prevention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Coimbra

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rita Miguel, Master · University of Coimbra, Portugal

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-06-01
Primary Completion
2024-02-25
Completion
2024-08-03

Countries

  • Portugal

Study Locations

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