The effectiveness of a trauma-focused psycho-educational secondary prevention program for children exposed to interparental violence: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Overbeek, Mathilde M ^a,b   de Schipper, J Clasien ^a,b   Lamers Winkelman, Francien ^a,b   Schuengel, Carlo ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behavioral problems; Children; Community group intervention; Domestic violence; Emotional security hypothesis; Interparental violence; Nonspecific factors; Parent child interaction; Posttraumatic stress symptoms; RCT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EMPATHY; GUILT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARENTAL STRESS; PARTNER VIOLENCE; POLICE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOEDUCATION; PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL SECONDARY PREVENTION PROGRAM; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECREATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WORK; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; PARENT; SAMPLE SIZE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; EMOTIONS; GUILT; HUMANS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAMPLE SIZE; SECONDARY PREVENTION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84856587283     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-13-12     Document Type: Article

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