Parent Encouragement And Coaching of Happiness in Youth

Summary

The goal of this mechanistic clinical trial is to examine whether parent-coaching aimed at increasing child positive affect will increase child neural response to reward. The main questions it aims to answer are: Aim 1. Characterize child neural reward response and its relation to maternal socialization of positive emotions at baseline in healthy young children. Aim 2. Evaluate how coaching-related changes in maternal socialization of positive emotion expression contribute to increases in child neural reward response over time. Aim 3.

Shortened from the sponsor's brief summary. View official record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Conditions studied

• Depression
• Parent-Child Relations

Eligibility basics and study details

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Ages

4 to 99 years

Sex

All

Healthy volunteers

Accepted

Sponsor

University of Pittsburgh

Last updated on ClinicalTrials.gov

January 28, 2026

These are the basic criteria only. The full inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official record, and the study team decides who can take part.

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