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Social Identity Mapping for Adolescent Recovery
Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital
Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to address the gap between clinical treatment and adolescents' lived social environments by developing and testing a novel, interactive intervention-SIM-AiR-that directly targets social risk and protective factors. By helping youth visually and cognitively process their social identities and networks, SIM-AiR seeks to support more enduring recovery outcomes in adolescents (12-19 years old) with alcohol use disorder (AUD). The specific aims of this study protocol are to pilot the SIM-AiR intervention module and collect participant acceptability feedback and preliminary outcomes. The main questions it aims to answer are: What is the acceptability of the SIM-AiR treatment module from the perspective of participants? Do participants' acceptability ratings of the SIM-AiR treatment module vary by personal and/or social network characteristics? Clinicians will implement the SIM-AiR with an adolescent client. Clinicians will provide feedback to the study team on their experience to support future implementation. Participants will complete the SIM-AiR module during a treatment session with their clinician and participate in data collection with study staff (e.g., surveys, interviews) following the treatment session.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
12 Years - 19 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
60
Start Date
2026-08-01
Completion Date
2028-08
Last Updated
2026-03-16
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
SIM-AiR
The clinician would engage the adolescent participant in the activity of social identity mapping (SIM) and use that to have a discussion, using motivational interviewing principles, about their social networks and social influences (supports, barriers) to treatment and recovery. The SIM process involves posing a series of questions to produce a visual map of the individual within their social network using paper, markers, and stickers. As this is a pilot study, this will be done once.
Locations (1)
Recovery Research Institute; National Center on Youth Prevention, Treatment, & Recovery; Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, United States