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A Male Caregiver Adaptation Study of the Connecting and Reflecting Experience Parenting Program
Sponsor: Montefiore Medical Center
Summary
Male caregivers play a critical role in children's emotional development, yet they are often underrepresented in parenting interventions and may experience unique barriers to emotional engagement and support. This study will evaluate whether a 12-session parenting group therapy program is feasible, acceptable, and appropriate for male-identifying caregivers of children and adolescents receiving mental health services. The intervention being studied is the Connecting and Reflecting Experience (CARE) parenting program, a mentalizing-focused group therapy designed to strengthen caregivers' ability to reflect on their own and their child's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. CARE has demonstrated promise in improving parental reflective functioning, reducing parenting stress, and enhancing parent-child relationships in prior studies, but has not yet been evaluated in a group composed exclusively of male-identifying caregivers. Participants will take part in a 12-session weekly CARE group delivered via telehealth, with each session lasting one hour. Participants will also be asked to complete brief self-report surveys before, during, and after participation in the group. The purpose of the study is to inform future intervention development and determine whether CARE is a useful intervention for groups of male caregivers.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
7
Start Date
2026-03-19
Completion Date
2026-07
Last Updated
2026-03-23
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Conditions
Interventions
Connecting and Reflecting Experience (CARE) Program
The intervention consists of weekly one-hour mentalizing-focused parenting group sessions with up to seven male-identifying caregivers per group and one to two trained facilitators. CARE is a therapy focused on parents' reflective capacity, or the ability to consider how our own and our children's thoughts, feelings, intentions, and other mental states shape behavior and parent-child relationships.
Locations (1)
Montefiore ACUTE Psychiatry
The Bronx, New York, United States