Testing the feasibility of delivering and evaluating a child mental health recovery program enhanced with additional parenting sessions for families displaced by the Syrian conflict
A pilot study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12438864 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aala El‐Khani (corresponding author), Aala El-Khani, Kim Cartwright (0000-0003-3486-9153), Cheryl Ang, Elizabeth Henshaw, Mishaal Tanveer, Rachel Calam (0000-0002-4385-1687) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 188-200 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Peace and Conflict Journal of Peace Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1078-1919 • E-ISSN: 1532-7949 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1037/pac0000287 |
| OpenAlex | W2807539217 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 21 |
Children who live through armed conflict and displacement are at increased risk of mental health difficulties, including posttraumatic stress (PTS). Parental support and monitoring are significant potentially modifiable factors amenable to preventive intervention. Children's resilience can be increased by assisting parents and caregivers in supporting children. This study investigated the feasibility of delivering and evaluating an adapted version of the teaching recovery techniques (TRT) intervention, an established, evidence-based mental health recovery program for children, in a displacement setting resulting from the Syrian conflict. Three parent skills sessions were added to the original TRT intervention to form a brief, 5-week child plus parenting program (TRT + Parenting). Feasibility to recruit and train nonspecialist staff on the ground to screen families for eligibility, collect outcome data and deliver the intervention, and to recruit and retain families in the intervention and study were examined. Fourteen Syrian refugee families residing in a border town in Turkey took part in the study. Research staff and intervention facilitators were successfully appointed in the field, screened participants, and delivered the intervention, collecting outcome measures pre- and postdelivery. Supervision was provided via Skype and Whatsapp from the Unite Kingdom. All families completed the outcome measures, with very little missing data, and all of the intervention sessions, except for one family who moved to another location. This indicated that TRT+Parenting can be delivered feasibly and evaluated with displaced families in this humanitarian context. Preliminary outcome data showed promise that TRT + Parenting may have the potential to both reduce children's PTS and increase caregivers' parenting self-efficacy and use of effective strategies. Implications and future directions of the research are discussed
Developmental psychology · Mental health · Psychotherapist · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Family Support in Illness · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology
Displaced Syrian Mental Health Workers
Interventions to enhance psychological resilience in forcibly displaced children
Strengthening parental self-efficacy and resilience
Refugee Children and Interventions for Depression
Facilitators and Barriers to Sustained Engagement in Parenting Programs
Psychosocial Interventions for Syrian Refugee Children
Enhancing the sociocultural adaptation of Syrian migrant women
Lessons from humanitarian clusters to strengthen health system responses to mass displacement in low and middle-income countries
Acceptability and Preliminary Outcomes of a Parenting Intervention for Syrian Refugees
A Meta-Analysis of Group Interventions for Trauma and Depression Among Immigrant and Refugee Children
I’m a Mother Who Always Tries to Give My Children Hope”—Refugee Women’s Experiences of Their Children’s Mental Health
Caregiver and family-focused interventions for early adolescents affected by armed conflict
What works? Lessons from a pretrial qualitative study to inform a multi‐component intervention for refugees and asylum seekers
Acceptability of a culturally-adapted, evidence-based mental health intervention for Venezuelan migrant youth residing in Colombia
The Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED)
The Children's Revised Impact of Event Scale (CRIES)
The Impact of Event Scale-Revised
The Parenting Scale
The Validity of Depressive Disorder in Childhood and the Development of a Self‐rating Scale
Mental health in complex emergencies
A Meta-analytic Review of Components Associated with Parent Training Program Effectiveness
Reliabiligy and Validity of the Japanese-Language Version of the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (Ies-R-J)
The mental health of children affected by armed conflict
Psychometric Properties of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED)
Psychometric Properties of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
The structure of negative emotional states
The short‐form version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (Dass‐21)
Parenting Support and PTSD in Children of a War Zone
Daily bread
Establishing the feasibility of assessing the mental health of children displaced by the Syrian conflict
Psychometric Properties of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) in a Non-Clinical Sample of Children and Adolescents in Saudi Arabia
Syria
Psychometric Properties of IES-R, Short Arabic Version in Contexts of Military Violence
Child Adjustment and Parent Efficacy Scale
| Unique citing works | 14 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |