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The ECHO Study: Compassion-focused Therapy for Young Voice Hearers and Their Caregivers

NCT07314515 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2026-02-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

In this project, a 10-session treatment program was developed aimed at young people who experience voice hearing. The treatment has potential to easily be implemented in everyday clinical practice in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and eventually in Educational Psychological Counselling (PPR) and the newly established STIME services (low-threshold municipal treatment offers for children and young people).

As part of the treatment, the young person's caregivers are involved. This means a high degree of involvement from adults who know the young person well and are part of their daily life.

In addition to traditional Compassion-focuced therapy (CFT), the treatment is expanded with an intervention where an audio file is recorded with content corresponding to the adolescent's voice hearing. The parents are invited to listen to the audio file while participating in a therapy session. This will help improve the caregivers understanding of the young person's experiences and challenges.

Conditions

  • Hallucinations, Auditory

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

ECHO Manualized CFT treatment for young voice heares

A manualized 10 session, intervention inspired by compassion focused therapy. A primary caretaker paticipates in 5 sessions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Region Syddanmark

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Southern Denmark

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Charlie Heriot-Maitland, Dr. · Balanced Minds

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-06-01
Primary Completion
2028-06-30
Completion
2029-01-31

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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