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Home Within the Heart: A Playful Journey to Strengthen Family Resilience Through a Play Therapy Workshop
Led by University of Haifa · Updated on 2024-09-19
500
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
N/A
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
This research aims to improve family resilience by enhancing open and secure communication within families, strengthening the parent-child bond, and fostering feelings of safety and stability. It focuses on parents and their children who have been evacuated from war zones, assessing how a short-term therapeutic workshop may improve emotional regulation, reflective functioning, parental self-efficacy, and child behavior. Participants in the study will either take part in a four-session play therapy workshop held once a week, led by professionals from clinical, educational, and developmental psychology. This workshop offers psycho-educational support on coping with stress through play therapy, specifically designed for parent-child pairs with children aged 3 to 6 years from war-affected regions. Observers will monitor the quality of parent-child interactions during sessions, focusing on emotion, responsiveness, encouragement, and instruction. Before and after the workshop, participants will complete questionnaires and clinical interviews to evaluate their mental functioning and relationship with their child. The study measures outcomes such as depression, anxiety, stress, parental reflective functioning, mental health, and child-parent relationship quality over a period of up to 20 weeks. The total study duration and follow-up assessments help researchers understand the workshop's impact on family resilience and emotional well-being.
CONDITIONS
Brief Title
Home Within the Heart: a Playful Journey to Strengthen Family Resilience
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Parent evacuated from war zones in the northern or southern regions of the country
- Has a child aged 3 to 6 years
- Age between 18 and 70 years
You will not qualify if you...
- Parent under the age of 18
- Parent not evacuated from war zones
- Parent has a child younger than 3 years or older than 6 years
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Your Study Journey
Duration - 2 to 4 weeks
Participants are screened for eligibility to participate in the trial.
1 visit (in-person)
Duration - 4 weeks
Participants attend a 4-session psycho-educational workshop held once a week, focusing on strategies for emotion regulation and building mental resilience in the parent-child relationship through play therapy.
Weekly visits for 4 weeks (in-person)
Duration - Up to 16 weeks
After the workshop, participants complete questionnaires to assess changes in mental health and parent-child interaction.
1 visit (in-person) after the workshop
Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
University of Haifa
Haifa, Israel, 3103301
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Research Team
Y
Yael Enav, PhD
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
NA
Model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Number of Arms
1
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