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Hamburg Emotion Awareness and Regulation Group Training for Autistic Adolescents (HEART)

NCT07009522 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: EARLY_PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 21

Last updated 2025-09-26

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Summary

The study focuses on a group training program called HEART aimed at helping adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder improve emotional regulation. It will use a pilot trial to evaluate the program's feasibility and effectiveness. The findings aim to advance scientific understanding and support the development of effective, evidence-based interventions to strengthen psychosocial support for autistic adolescents.

Conditions

  • Study Group

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Hamburg Emotion Awareness and Regulation Group Training for Autistic Adolescents - HEART

The group program for adolescents with ASD takes place weekly. Each session lasts 100 minutes (including a break), and the training includes a total of 12 sessions. The intervention is manualized and is based on the theoretical foundations of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Therapy, and the TEACCH approach (Mesibov et al., 2005). Parallel to the adolescents, their parents will participate in a separate group training, which will be conducted in five sessions of 100 minutes each and is closely linked in content to the adolescent group training.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Johannes Boettcher, Dr. · Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-01-15
Primary Completion
2026-12-15
Completion
2027-02-15

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