The ECHO Study: Compassion-focused Therapy for Young Voice Hearers and Their Caregivers

In this project, a 10-session treatment program was developed aimed at young people who experience voice hearing. The treatment has potential to easily be implemented in everyday clinical practice in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and eventually in Educational Psychological Counselling (PPR) and the newly established STIME services (low-threshold municipal treatment offers for children and young people). As part of the treatment, the young person's caregivers are involved. This means a high degree of involvement from adults who know the young person well and are part of their daily life. In addition to traditional Compassion-focuced therapy (CFT), the treatment is expanded with an intervention where an audio file is recorded with content corresponding to the adolescent's voice hearing. The parents are invited to listen to the audio file while participating in a therapy session. This will help improve the caregivers understanding of the young person's experiences and challenges.

NCT Number	NCT07314515
Lead Sponsor	University of Southern Denmark Collaborators: Region Syddanmark
Conditions	Hallucinations, Auditory
Enrollment	80 participants
Start Date	2026-06-01
Primary Completion	2028-06 (estimated)
Study Completion	2029-01 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2026-02-24