Equine Assisted Services in Children and Adolescents With Mental Illness (EASiCAM)
Mental Disorders, Child, Mental Disorder in Adolescence, Anxiety Disorders
About this trial
This is an interventional supportive care trial for Mental Disorders, Child focused on measuring Equine-Assisted Therapy
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: Age between 7 to 17 Depression Anxiety School refusers Eating disorders Established contact with the child and youth psychiatry in the region of Skane Established contact wit the student´s health team at elementary schools in the region of Skane Exclusion Criteria: Severe allergy to horses Do not speak, or do not understand Swedish, spoken and written. Do not speak, or do not understand English spoken and written. Those who cannot understand the intervention Those who do not understand what it means to be in control group
Sites / Locations
- Halmstad UniversityRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Equine assisted therapy
Control
once a week during 10 weeks the children will come to "Humlamaden" which is a horse farm with special trained horses and employees with specialist education in psychiatric care. During the time at the farm the child will go through a structured program that starts at the first time with just resting on the horse back under blankets
This group will receive treatment as usual and consist of those who is randomized to control group.