Project BELONG: Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Family Violence and Trauma

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Conditions studied: Mother-child Relations, Parenting, Parent Child Abuse, Family Conflict, Parental Stress, Family Relations, Childhood Disorder of Social Functioning, Unspecified

In brief

This study will examine the efficacy of a dyadic therapy intervention for mothers who have histories of adverse events (e.g., history of family violence, partner violence, family conflict, and/or childhood trauma, including abuse/neglect) and their very young children (ages 0-5 years), with the goal of demonstrating how an evidence supported, community-based and/or hospital-based therapeutic intervention may help reduce exposure to trauma and incidents of child maltreatment, improve parental stress and mental health, and secure parent-child attachment. The three main objectives associated with Project BELONG are: 1) to determine the effectiveness of a dyadic care model in improving parent/child interaction, parenting confidence and competence, reducing parenting stress and social isolation, and improving access to concrete supports; 2) to address maltreatment risk in children by enhancing social-emotional functioning and developmental progress; and 3) to train new and future mental health professionals in dyadic mental health services and disseminate the model and findings through health professional schools and publications.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03212339

Run by

Boston Medical Center

People needed

0

Starts

2018-02-01

Expected to finish

2020-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-08-05

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Female gender
• 18 years of age or older
• Has a child under the age of 5 years
• Must be parent or legal guardian of child
• Comfortable communicating in English
• Plan to stay in the greater Boston area for the next 6 months [post IRB-approval]
• Typically available between the hours of 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM at least one day during the week (Monday thru Friday)
• Must answer "yes" to having experienced hardships in their own life, which may have involved any of the following: threat of violence, family violence, partner violence, family conflict, and/or mistreatment in their own childhood.
• Must be able to provide informed consent

You may not qualify if…

• Child previously diagnosed with autism, severe global delay, blindness, deafness or paralysis

Where it is running

• Boston Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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