Feasibility, Acceptability, and Clinical Trends of a Mindfulness-Informed Child Welfare Intervention: Implications for Trauma-Focused Practice

Brown, Samantha M.; Bellamy, James A.

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“…Short-term MIIs with parents have been shown to increase levels of mindfulness and subjective wellbeing, decrease levels of parenting stress, and improve youth outcomes, such as externalizing behaviors [5,7,53]. Results from the few studies utilizing underrepresented samples suggest that MIIs are feasible and acceptable [6,54,55] and they are often cost-effective to administer [56]. Therefore, brief MIIs for families with elevated levels of risk may be cost-effective to implement and provide critical tools for parenting effectively in the face of stress and children's challenging behavior.…”

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“…In sum, the literature suggests that mindfulness may be a key psychological resource such that MIIs may encourage parents to cope in more adaptive ways and improve perceptions of children's behavior. Short-term mindfulness interventions have led to improvements in mindfulness, coping, and perceptions of stress and children's behavior, and are feasible, acceptable, and cost-effective to implement with families with elevated levels of risk [54,56,[63][64][65]. MIIs provide tools for self-awareness, self-compassion, stress buffering, and adaptive coping; thus, parents who participate in an MII may be better able to maintain present-moment awareness, regulate their own emotions, and respond sensitively to the emotional cues, needs, and challenging behaviors of their children.…”

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Mindfulness Intervention Improves Coping and Perceptions of Children’s Behavior among Families with Elevated Risk

Krause,

Brown

2023

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Mindfulness-informed interventions (MIIs) are increasingly common but have not been extensively studied among families with elevated levels of risk (e.g., those involved in child protective services and/or receiving financial assistance). These families often experience high rates of stressors that can impact coping strategies, interpersonal dynamics, and relationships. Given that mindfulness has been shown to promote health and wellbeing, this study used a sample from two pilot randomized controlled trials to test the extent to which a mindfulness-informed intervention improved coping strategies and perceptions of children’s behavior among 53 families with elevated risk. A principal components analysis with a direct oblimin rotation revealed that cognitive–emotion coping strategies could be characterized by three factors: positive adaptation, negative adaptation, and positive refocusing. Intention-to-treat analysis indicated significant group by time differences, with intervention participants demonstrating improvements in positive refocusing coping, positive adaptation coping, and perceptions of children’s behavior problems compared to participants in the waitlist control group. No significant differences were found for negative adaptation coping strategies. Findings provide preliminary support for the benefits of mindfulness training in a sample generally underrepresented in the mindfulness intervention literature.

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Mindfulness Intervention Improves Coping and Perceptions of Children’s Behavior among Families with Elevated Risk

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Brown

2023

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“…Mindfulness is "the awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally to the unfolding of experience moment by moment" (Kabat-Zinn, 2003, p. 145). Various modalities have implemented mindfulness including psychotherapy (e.g., Harris, 2013), in-home individual skill-building programs (e.g., Brown & Bellamy, 2017), and educational group sessions (e.g., Dhanalakshmi, 2019;Evans-Chase, 2015). Mindfulness has also been identified as a common practice element in evidence-based trauma treatment (Strand et al, 2013).…”

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Mixed Methods Evaluation of a Movement and Mindfulness Empowerment Workshop for Adults with Serious Mental Illness

Clarkson-Hendrix

Peters

2021

ASW

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For seriously mentally ill adults, empowerment is critical to maximizing participation in major life activities. Although studies have identified interventions that have positively impacted empowerment, these interventions may not be applicable or amenable to all adults with serious mental illness. More interventions with other approaches are needed. Therefore, this study evaluated the initial implementation of a movement- and mindfulness-based workshop intervention. Quantitative data were used to examine differences in empowerment before and after the workshop, and qualitative data were used to explore participants’ perceptions of the reasons for empowerment differences. Ten participants completed the intervention, and nine of the ten participants also completed follow-up interviews. Quantitative data were collected via pre- and post-intervention surveys. Qualitative data were collected through follow-up interviews with the participants. Surveys revealed perceptions of optimism and control over the future increased between pre- and post-intervention. Interviews uncovered that increases in optimism and control over the future may have been related to workshop accomplishments and reduced helplessness outside of workshop sessions. Future research would benefit from the creation of a training manual along with a validated system to monitor intervention fidelity.

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“…Recent research and practice in human service program delivery has focused on the efficacy of trauma-informed practice in contributing to service user positive outcomes in a variety of contexts such as treatment centers for substance misuse (Hales et al, 2019;Shier & Turpin, 2017), domestic violence shelter services (Kulkarni, 2019;Sullivan et al, 2018), and child welfare services (S. M. Brown & Bellamy, 2017;Tullberg et al, 2017). As knowledge is developed in this field, researchers and practitioners alike can begin to develop frameworks for organizations that apply a trauma-informed lens to the provision of services aimed at supporting groups with histories of trauma.…”

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Trauma-Informed Organizational Dynamics and Client Outcomes in Concurrent Disorder Treatment

Shier

Turpin

2021

Research on Social Work Practice

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Purpose: To test an empirical model of the effects of a trauma-informed organizational environment on service user outcomes in the context of concurrent disorder treatment. Methods: Service users ( n = 172) were surveyed while in treatment to determine the effects of trauma-informed organizational dynamics (i.e., safety, trust, choice, collaboration, and empowerment) on service user intrapersonal development outcomes (i.e., self-awareness, outlook, coping ability, self-worth, and self-determination) and improvements with concurrent disorder behaviors. After testing for validity and reliability of latent factors, data were analyzed using multivariate analysis. Results: As a concise analytical model, the trauma-informed organizational environment was found to significantly positively predict all service user intrapersonal outcomes as well as a reduction in concurrent disorder behaviors. Conclusions: This study informs developments in the design and implementation of trauma-informed practice frameworks for concurrent disorder treatment and emphasizes the importance of adapting organizational environments to support improved client outcomes.

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Feasibility, Acceptability, and Clinical Trends of a Mindfulness-Informed Child Welfare Intervention: Implications for Trauma-Focused Practice

Cited by 6 publications

References 38 publications

Mindfulness Intervention Improves Coping and Perceptions of Children’s Behavior among Families with Elevated Risk

Mindfulness Intervention Improves Coping and Perceptions of Children’s Behavior among Families with Elevated Risk

Mixed Methods Evaluation of a Movement and Mindfulness Empowerment Workshop for Adults with Serious Mental Illness

Trauma-Informed Organizational Dynamics and Client Outcomes in Concurrent Disorder Treatment

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