F-PGT - Prolonged Grief Treatment for Families Affected by Suicide

Conditions

• Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD)

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

8 Years - N/A

Healthy Volunteers

Not accepted

Interventions

• F-PGT — BEHAVIORAL
  Family- Prolonged Grief Treatment (F-PGT) is a specialized talk therapy to help families who have lost a parent to suicide. It is based on Prolonged Grief Therapy (PGT) that is efficacious for adults and is now adapted for parents and their children ages 8 to 14. The therapy includes 16 online sessions where a therapist meets with the parent alone, the child alone, or both together. Activities for children are designed to match their age and understanding. The therapy guides families through six steps: understanding and accepting grief, seeing promise in the future, strengthening relationships, sharing the story of the death, living with reminders, and connecting with memories. As a part of the focus on strengthening relationships parents are encouraged to invite a friend or relative to join a session.

Study Details

This pilot open trial is being done to better understand the needs of families who have lost a parent to suicide at least a year ago and who have children ages 8-14 and to develop and test Family-Prolonged Grief Treatment (F-PGT), a modification of prolonged grief therapy (PGT) as a way to help these families. PGT has been proven efficacious for adults with prolonged grief. The therapy has been adapted to include work with parents in helping their children (aged 8-14) and to include sessions with the child. All assessment and treatment sessions of the study are being conducted virtually.

Key Dates

Start date

Dec 17, 2025

Status verified

Jan 2026

Primary completion

Jul 1, 2026

Completion

Dec 31, 2026

Study Design

Enrollment

30 participants (estimated)

Allocation

NA

Intervention model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Arms

• Experimental: F-PGT
  Eligible families will receive 16 online sessions of Family-Prolonged Grief Treatment (F-PGT).

Primary Outcome Measure

Total Score on Feasibility of Intervention Measure (FIM) at End of Treatment [ Time Frame: End of treatment at 20 weeks ]

Locations (2)

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