Advancing Mindful Parenting Research: an Introduction

Parent, Justin; DiMarzio, Karissa

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“…Contemporary Western psychology has incorporated mindfulness-based strategies into a range of interventions for many adult disorders, including substance use disorders (Howarth et al, 2019;Korecki et al, 2020). Notably, there has also been growing interest in the way mindfulness can be incorporated into parenting (Parent & Dimarzio, 2021). Following the work of Kabat-Zinn and Kabat-Zinn (1997), Duncan (2007) expanded mindfulness concepts to the parent-child relationship.…”

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Therapeutic Process of Change During Participation in the Parents Under Pressure Program for a Cohort of Parents Who Misuse Substances

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Objectives Despite a large evaluation literature for interventions aiming to improve the lives of families affected by parent substance misuse, very few studies have examined how families change when engaged with treatment. This study examines the interactive process of change in parent psychopathology and mindful parenting during participation in the Parents under Pressure (PuP) program for parents engaged in community addiction services. Methods Parents (n = 164) provided baseline, mid- and end-treatment measures of parent psychopathology and mindful parenting. Cross-lagged modelling was used to examine therapeutic process of change. Results Parent psychopathology decreased, and mindful parenting increased from baseline to end-treatment (ps < .001). Less psychopathology at mid-treatment predicted higher levels of overall mindful parenting upon completion of the PuP program (p = .005). Examination of the mindful parenting dimensions revealed variation in the therapeutic process of change. While higher levels of Non-Judgemental Acceptance of Parental Functioning (NJAPF) at baseline predicted lower psychopathology at mid-treatment (p = .03), higher levels of Compassion for Child (CC) at baseline predicted greater psychopathology at mid-treatment (p = 0.004). Higher levels of NJAPF mid-treatment predicted lower psychopathology upon treatment completion (p = .023), yet higher levels of Emotional Awareness of Child (EAC) at mid-treatment predicted greater psychopathology upon treatment completion (p = .023). Lower parent psychopathology at mid-treatment predicted higher levels of LFA, EAC, Self-Regulation in Parenting and NJAPF upon completion of the PuP program (ps < .05). Conclusions The findings highlight the importance of reducing parent psychopathology as a precursor to more mindful parenting and also provide new evidence regarding the way in which variation in mindful parenting dimensions influences the therapeutic process of change.

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“…Understanding how and to what degree these relationships differ across populations would help to inform not only for whom mindfulness‐based interventions might be most beneficial, but to whom these interventions must be more widely and effortfully disseminated. Mindfulness‐based interventions may be particularly promising in this context given the racial and ethnic disparities plaguing the mental health care system, as such interventions have been shown to be effective in a variety of settings, including those with limited resources (Parent et al, 2014; Parent & DiMarzio, 2021).…”

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Keeping your coparent in mind: A longitudinal investigation of mindfulness in the family system

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Recent studies have increasingly focused on mindfulness as it relates to interpersonal processes. In particular, cross-sectional research has shown that parents' dispositional mindfulness is associated with increased mindful parenting and coparenting, as well as improved coparenting relationship quality. The current study replicates and extends such work, representing the first longitudinal investigation of mindful coparenting. A sample of 449 parents (60% mothers) of children between the ages of 3 and 17 years were recruited online through Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) as part of a larger study on the assessment of parenting. Parents reported on their dispositional mindfulness, mindful coparenting, and coparenting relationship quality at three time points across an 8-month period. Results from a path analysis model using maximum likelihood estimation suggested that higher levels of parental mindfulness at baseline were related to higher levels of mindful coparenting at 4 months, which, in turn, were related to higher quality coparenting relationship at 8 months. Support for this model was found for both mothers and fathers and across all examined child age groups (i.e., early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence), highlighting the robust nature of these effects. Overall, findings suggest that increasing mindfulness at an individual level can promote meaningful change within a family system, specifically through improvements in coparenting and parent-child interactions.

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“…The value of addressing the health of parents of aggressive children is reflected in various efforts to build into parenting programs components that target parental dysfunction or distress. Examples include strategies for addressing marital dissatisfaction (e.g., Dadds et al, 1987), emotion dysregulation (e.g., Roos et al, 2021), problem solving and coping (e.g., Chacko et al, 2008), interpersonal distress (Webster-Stratton & Herbert, 1994), social support (Dadds & McHugh, 1992), self-compassion (e.g., Jefferson et al, 2020), and mindfulness (e.g., Parent & DiMarzio, 2021). There have also been efforts (a) to supplement parenting interventions with parent-focused psychotherapy and (b) to test whether child behavior problems are ameliorated when therapy focuses solely on parental psychopathology (e.g., Galbally & Lewis, 2017;Marino et al, 2021;Zalewski et al, 2020).…”

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“…Most prominent among recent efforts to promote parent health is the growing body of work on parents' use of mindfulness (Alexander, 2018). Efforts to infuse mindfulness into parenting is often framed as mindful parenting (Fuller & Fitter, 2020;Kabat-Zinn & Kabat-Zinn, 2021;Parent & DiMarzio, 2021;Parent et al, 2021;Singh et al, 2007Singh et al, , 2010Williams & Wahler, 2010). Closely related to this work are studies examining the role of psychological flexibility (Daks & Rogge, 2020;Fonseca et al, 2020;Rogge & Daks, 2021) and self-compassion in parenting (Jefferson et al, 2020).…”

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“…As noted earlier, prominent among recent efforts to promote parent health is research on mindful parenting (Alexander, 2018;Fuller & Fitter, 2020;Kabat-Zinn & Kabat-Zinn, 2021;Parent & DiMarzio, 2021;Parent et al, 2021;Singh et al, 2007Singh et al, , 2010Williams & Wahler, 2010). Increased attention to mindful parenting is supported by studies documenting that parents' dispositional mindfulness is a protective factor in longitudinal studies of parenting and child psychopathology (e.g., Parent et al, 2021;Williams & Wahler, 2010).…”

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Working With Parents of Aggressive Children: A Practitioner's Guide (2nd Ed.).

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Parenting an aggressive child is hard work from which there is seldom a break. Qualitative studies (e.g., Spitzer et al., 1991; Webster-Stratton & Spitzer, 1996) offer insights into the lived experiences of parents whose children are disruptive and demanding. Identified themes include parents often feeling (a) angry and fearful of losing control or (b) depressed and engaging in selfblame. The strain of parenting an aggressive child is also well documented in quantitative studies: There is a robust body of research that links parent dysfunction/distress to childhood behavior problems (e.g.,

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Advancing Mindful Parenting Research: an Introduction

Cited by 18 publications

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Therapeutic Process of Change During Participation in the Parents Under Pressure Program for a Cohort of Parents Who Misuse Substances

Therapeutic Process of Change During Participation in the Parents Under Pressure Program for a Cohort of Parents Who Misuse Substances

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