Emotion-focused skills training – a parenting support program

Emotion-focused skills training is a relatively new parenting support program which is based on attachment theory and research on emotions. The aim of the skills training is to support parents in their ability to help their children to understand and express emotions with the ultimate goal to improve mental health in children and their parents.  

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SBU Enquiry Service

Consists of structured literature searches to highlight studies that can address questions received by the SBU Enquiry Service from Swedish healthcare or social service providers. We assess the risk of bias in systematic reviews and when needed also quality and transferability of results in health economic studies. Relevant references are compiled by an SBU staff member, in consultation with an external expert when needed.

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Published: Report no: ut202417 Registration no: SBU 2024/650

Question

What systematic reviews have been published regarding emotion-focused skills training (EFST)?

Method

A systematic literature search was performed using the following databases: Scopus, Medline (via Ovid), PsycInfo (via Ebsco).
Two authors independently assessed the abstracts and fulltexts of all identified studies.

Identified literature

No relevant studies were identified.

Search strategies

Medline via OvidSP 24 September 2024

Title: Emotion-focused skills training
/ = Term from the MeSH controlled vocabulary; .sh = Term from the MeSH controlled vocabulary; exp = Term from MeSH including terms found below this term in the MeSH hierarchy; .ti,ab = Title or abstract; .tw = Title or abstract; .kf = Keywords; .kw = Keywords, exact; .bt = Book title. NLM Bookshelf; .pt = Publication type; .ja = Journal abbreviation; .af = All fields; adjn = Adjacent. Proximity operator retrieving adjacent words, adj3 retrieves records with search terms within two terms from each other; * or $ = Truncation; “ “ = Citation Marks; searches for an exact phrase
Search terms Items found
Population:
1. (child* or youth* or adolescen* or teen* or underage* or minor or family or parent* or (parent* child*) or (parenting skills)).ti,ab,kf,bt. 3 403 344
2. exp child/ or adolescent/ or minors/ or parents/ or family/ or parenting/ or parent child relations/ 3 552 619
Intervention:
3. Emotion-Focused Therapy/ 78
4. (EFST or EFFT).ti,ab,kf,bt 1214
5. (emotion* adj3 (behav* or therap* or train* or treat* or method* or approach* or skill* or regulat* or focus* or orient* or sociali* or competenc*)).ti,bt,ab,kf. 54 482
6. (skills training).ti,ab,kf,bt. 9204
7. ("emotion regulation training" OR "parental training" or (parenting skill*)).ti,bt,ab,kf. 1377
Study types: systematic reviews and meta-analysis
8. ((Systematic Review/ or Meta-Analysis/ or Cochrane Database Syst Rev.ja. or ((systematic adj4 review) or "meta analys*" or metaanalys*).ti,bt,ab.) not (editorial/ or letter/ or case reports/)) 505 425
Combined sets:
9. 1 or 2 5 357 264
10. or/3-7 65 387
Final result
11. 8 and 9 and 10 1105

Scopus via scopus.com 24 September 2024

Title: Emotion-focused skills training
TITLE-ABS-KEY = Title, abstract or keywords (including indexed keywords and author keywords); ALL = All fields; W/n = Within. Proximity operator retrieving terms within n words from each other; PRE/n = Precedes by. Proximity operator, the first term in the search must precede the second by n words; LIMIT-TO (X) = Includes only results of specified type, e.g., publication type or time range; DOCTYPE = Publication type; “re” = review; “le” = letter; “ed” = editorial; “ch” = book chapter; “cp” = conference proceedings; * = Truncation; “ “ = Citation Marks; searches for an exact phrase
Search terms Items found
Population:
1. TITLE-ABS-KEY (child* OR schoolchild* OR youth* OR adolescen* OR teenage* OR teen* OR underage* OR minors OR student OR parent* OR family) 8 544 387
Intervention:
2. TITLE-ABS-KEY (emotion* PRE/ therap*) 1337
3. TITLE-ABS-KEY (emotion* W/2 (behav* OR therap* OR train* OR treat* OR method* OR approach* OR skill* OR regulat* OR focus* OR orient* OR sociali* OR regulat* OR therap*) 112 117
4. TITLE-ABS-KEY ( "skills training" OR “parental skills” OR “parental training” OR "emotion regulation training") 26 637
5. TITLE-ABS-KEY (EFST OR EFT OR EFFT) 4871
Study types: systematic reviews and meta-analysis
6. TITLE-ABS-KEY (( systematic W/2 review ) OR "meta analy*" OR metaanaly* ) AND (EXCLUDE (DOCTYPE, “le”) OR EXCLUDE (DOCTYPE, “ed”) OR EXCLUDE (DOCTYPE, “ch”) OR EXCLUDE (DOCTYPE, “cp”)) 744 707
Combined sets:
7. 2 OR 3 OR 4 OR 5 141 367
Final result
8. 1 AND 6 AND 7 2152

PSYCINFO via EBSCO 24 September 2024

Title: Emotion-focused skills training
TI = Title; AB = Abstract; SU = Keyword, exact or part (including all other fields for indexed and author keywords); DE = Exact keyword; TX = All text; MR = Methodology; Nn = Near. Proximity operator retrieving terms within n words from each other; * = Truncation; “ “ = Citation Marks; searches for an exact phrase
Search terms Items found
Population:
1. TI ( child* OR ”school child*” OR youth* OR adolescen* OR teenage* OR teen OR teens OR underage* OR parent* OR famil*) OR AB ( child* OR ”school child*” OR youth* OR adolescen* OR teenage* OR teen OR teens OR underage* OR parent* OR famil*) OR SU ( child* OR ”school child*” OR youth* OR adolescen* OR teenage* OR teen OR teens OR underage* OR parent* OR famil*) 1 590 665
Intervention:
2. DE "Emotion Focused Therapy" OR DE "Parent Training" 10 190
3. TI ((emotion* N2 (behav* OR therap* OR train* OR treat* OR method* OR approach* OR skill* OR regulat* OR focus* OR orient* OR sociali*)) OR EFST OR EFT OR EFFT OR ”parenting skill*” OR "emotion regulation training" OR "parental training" )OR AB ((emotion* N2 (behav* OR therap* OR train* OR treat* OR method* OR approach* OR skill* OR regulat* OR focus* OR orient* OR sociali*)) OR EFST OR EFT OR EFFT OR ”parenting skill*” OR "emotion regulation training" OR "parental training" ) OR SU ((emotion* N2 (behav* OR therap* OR train* OR treat* OR method* OR approach* OR skill* OR regulat* OR focus* OR orient* OR sociali*)) OR EFST OR EFT OR EFFT OR ”parenting skill*” OR "emotion regulation training" OR "parental training" ) 93 649
Study types: systematic reviews and meta-analysis
4. TI((systematic n3 review) OR "meta analys*" OR metaanalys*) OR AB((systematic n3 review) OR "meta analys*" OR metaanalys*) OR SU((systematic n3 review) OR "meta analys*" OR metaanalys*) OR (MR "Systematic Review" OR MR "meta analysis") 105 416
Combined sets:
5. 2 OR 3 101 205
Final result
6. 1 AND 4 AND 5 1271
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