Efficacy of iMentalize and MISC-SA to Foster Parents' Mentalization and Children Mental Health in General Population.

NARecruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

105

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

February 5, 2024

Primary Completion Date

February 21, 2025

Study Completion Date

March 3, 2025

Conditions
Emotional IntelligenceSocial InteractionMental Health Wellness 1Well-Being, Psychological
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

iMentalize Program (iMentalize)

"This is a 30-hour group training involving 30 sessions lasting 45 minutes and 7.5 hours of inter-sessions work.~Session 1: Program presentation; Session 2: Reflective Parenting; Session 3: Cartoon's session I (baseline); Session 3: What is Mentalization; Session 4: Fundamentals of Human Interaction; Session 5: Cartoon's session II (the beginnings); Session 6: Mentalization and Mental Health; Session 7: MISC context and cultural components; Session 8: Cartoon's session III (practice with MISC context comp.); Session 9: The importance of emotions in human interaction; Session 10: MISC emotional components; Session 11: Cartoon's session IV (practice with emotional comp.); Session 11: How mentalization is developed; Session 12: MISC cognitive components; Session 13: Cartoon's session V (practice with cognitive comp.); Session 14: How to foster children mentalization skills. Sessions 15 to 30: Cartoon's sessions using MISC components to foster children mentalization."

BEHAVIORAL

Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers, Self-Administered version (MISC-SA)

This is a 30-hour individual training involving 30-weekly online, individual, self-administered 45' sessions (22.5h) + 7.5h of between sessions work (readings, supervision, video- recordings for later video-feedback, reflection exercises). BLOCK I: Session 1: Presentation of the MISC program; Sessions 2 to 8 (Self-Administered or SA): Theoretical bases of the MISC; Sessions 9-18 (MISC practice and video-feedback); Summer break: Recording daily life interactions; BLOCK II: Session 19: Recap; Sessions 20-30: guided reflection and video-feedback.

BEHAVIORAL

Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers - Readings version (MISC-R): Treatment as Usual (TAU)

"This is an equivalent 30-hour online self-administered training involving 30 x 45' individual online sessions (22.5h), mostly based on reflection exercises around brief readings, pills, and animated shorts, but not video- feedback and guided practice. This is complemented with 7.5h of between-sessions work based on looking for new information, adult-child (non-guided) activities (and not for later video- feedback) or out-of-line guided reflective exercises.~Session 1: Program presentation; Session 2-8: Theoretical bases of MISC and mentalization; Session 9-16: MISC and mentalization applied to mental health; 17-18: Benefits of MISC to improve children learning; 19-20: Benefits of MISC for self-esteem; 21-22: The importance of MISC to foster mentalization; 23-24: Mentalization and pro-social behavior; 25-26: The importance of MISC to promote secure attachment; 27: MISC impact in epistemic trust; 28-29: MISC and well-being; 30: MISC, mentalization and environmental enrichment."

Trial Locations (2)

08193

RECRUITING

Sergi Ballespí, Barcelona

RECRUITING

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Spain

OTHER_GOV

lead

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

OTHER