Individual vs. Group Community Reinforcement Training to Help Parents of Substance-using Treatment-refusing Youth
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Substance Use Disorders, Treatment Refusal
In brief
The purpose of this study is to test the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of Community Reinforcement Training (CRT) provided in a group therapy format. The goals of CRT are to teach parents behavioral and communication skills to influence their youth's drug use and encourage them to enter treatment. Thirty parents will be randomly assigned to Group CRT and 30 will be randomly assigned to traditional, Individual CRT. Youth engaged in treatment will receive individual Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Families are assessed for adolescent substance use and other areas of individual and family functioning. It is expected that Group CRT will be more effective for encouraging youth entry into treatment and improving parental functioning.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01829789
- Run by
- Oregon Research Institute
- People needed
- 60
- Starts
- 2013-04-01
- Expected to finish
- 2016-03-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2016-09-30
Who can join
Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Parents have an adolescent between 15-20 years
- Parents have had contact with the adolescent on at least 40% of the past 12 weeks
- Parents have some knowledge or evidence that the adolescent would meet DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for a substance use disorder
- Adolescent has explicitly refused to attend any intake or therapy sessions
- Adolescent is not under a current court mandate for treatment or has refused to comply with the mandate
- English-speaking capability (parents and adolescents)
You may not qualify if…
- Evidence of adolescent psychotic or organic state of sufficient severity to interfere with understanding of study instruments and procedures
- Adolescent had received drug treatment (except detoxification) in the past 12 weeks.
Where it is running
- Center for Family and Adolescent Research — Portland, Oregon, United States
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