NCT06592651

Home Within the Heart: a Playful Journey to Strengthen Family Resilience

Home Within the Heart

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 500 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Haifa · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The primary aim of this clinical trial is to enhance open and secure communication within the family, strengthen the parent-child bond, and reinforce feelings of safety and stability, and strengthen family resilience. In addition,the investigators want to assess the effectiveness of a short-term therapeutic workshop in enhancing reflective functioning, beliefs about the malleability of emotions, the reported use of effective emotional regulation strategies, and the perceived parental self-efficacy and child behavior.

Detailed description

The participants will: Complete questionnaires and participate in clinical interviews regarding their relationship with their children and their mental functioning prior to the workshop. The intervention group will engage in a 4-session workshop (held once a week) facilitated practitioners from various therapeutic disciplines, including clinical, educational, and developmental psychologists, as well as group facilitators. During each session, observers document the quality of the interaction between the parent and child, focusing on aspects such as emotion, responsiveness, encouragement, and instruction. After the workshop, participants will again complete questionnaires.

Conditions

• Family Resilience
• Short-term Therapy
• The Integration of Narrative Therapy and Play Therapy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Play Therapy Workshop	4 session group intervention foucused on psycho-educational knowledge regarding tools for effective emotional coping with stressful events in the context of the "Iron Swords" war, focusing on building mental resilience in the parent-child dyad through play therapy. Each group consists of 5 parent-child dyads with children aged 3-6 years, who have been evacuated from war zones in the northern and southern regions of the country.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-02-02
• Primary completion: 2027-02-01
• Completion: 2027-02-01
• First posted: 2024-09-19
• Last updated: 2024-09-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel