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Parent Intervention for Psychiatrically-Hospitalized Youth
Sponsor: Stanford University
Summary
The purpose of the present study is to conduct a pilot randomized clinical trial (RCT) of a parent coaching intervention for parents of youth hospitalized for suicidal ideation, suicide attempt(s), or non-suicidal self-injury. Parents will receive either the parent coaching intervention (which includes safety planning and behavioral parenting skills training with a clinician and assistance with linkage to follow-up care by a case manager) or treatment as usual (TAU) for the inpatient unit. The long-term goal of the research is to determine if augmenting standard inpatient treatment with additional parenting intervention improves youth treatment response on suicide-related outcomes (i.e., suicidal ideation, non-suicidal self-injury, and suicide attempts). The goal of this pilot RCT is to collect preliminary data needed for a larger RCT, including feasibility, acceptability, safety, tolerability, engagement of the presumed mechanism of change (changes in parent emotions and behaviors), and signal detection of any changes in youth suicide-related outcomes.
Official title: Pilot Intervention for Parents of Psychiatrically-Hospitalized Youth
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
12 Years - 85 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
40
Start Date
2023-05-01
Completion Date
2026-06-01
Last Updated
2025-05-16
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
DBT-Based Parenting Intervention
The intervention will consist of 4 individual telehealth parent sessions, to be completed within one month after the teen discharges from the inpatient hospital or within one month of linkage to care whatever comes first . Sessions will be 60-90 minute in length and will be offered weekly. Therapists may see parents more than once a week if needed, as long as the total number of sessions does not exceed 4.
Treatment as usual
No parenting intervention provided beyond standard practices on the adolescent psychiatric inpatient unit.
Locations (1)
Michele Berk
Stanford, California, United States