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Parent Encouragement And Coaching of Happiness in Youth

NCT06725160 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 180

Last updated 2026-01-28

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Summary

The goal of this mechanistic clinical trial is to examine whether parent-coaching aimed at increasing child positive affect will increase child neural response to reward. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Aim 1. Characterize child neural reward response and its relation to maternal socialization of positive emotions at baseline in healthy young children.

Aim 2. Evaluate how coaching-related changes in maternal socialization of positive emotion expression contribute to increases in child neural reward response over time.

Aim 3. Examine how maternal socialization of positive emotion expression contributes to increases in child neural reward response in the moment.

Participating mother-child dyads will be randomized to either 3 sessions of parent coaching of child positive affect or 3 sessions of a general parenting support intervention and neural response to reward and affective behavior will be examined pre and post intervention.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Parent Coaching

Three sessions of parent coaching of child positive affect will be administered based on modules from PCIT-ED.

BEHAVIORAL

Active Control

General parent support and psychoeducation based on components of standard PCIT.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Pittsburgh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Judith M Morgan, PhD · University of Pittsburgh

  • Lauren M. Bylsma, PhD · University of Pittsburgh

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
4 Years
Max Age
99 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-10-28
Primary Completion
2029-02-01
Completion
2029-02-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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