Mindfulness Strategies: Supporting Military Parents During Reintegration

Gliske, Kate; Richmond, Adeya; Smischney, Tegan; Borden, Lynne M.

doi:10.1007/s12671-019-01156-0

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“…An additional study found that the association between maternal difficulties in emotion regulation, including nonacceptance of her own emotions, and depressive symptoms in children and adolescents was mediated through parenting behaviors (Gouveia, Canavarro, & Moreira, ). Indeed, interventions aimed at improving parenting in the context of stress often focus on increasing parents’ awareness and acceptance of their own emotions as well as their children's (Gliske, Richmond, Smischney, & Borden, ). A parent who feels ashamed or uncomfortable with their own emotional experiences may attempt to conceal their affect from their child, nonverbally conveying to the child that emotions should be suppressed, and reducing the opportunities to engage in appropriate emotional modeling.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, interventions aimed at improving parenting in the context of stress often focus on increasing parents' awareness and acceptance of their own emotions as well as their children's (Gliske, Richmond, Smischney, & Borden, 2019). A parent who feels ashamed or uncomfortable with their own emotional experiences may attempt to conceal their affect from their child, nonverbally conveying to the child that emotions should be suppressed, and reducing the opportunities to engage in appropriate emotional modeling.…”

Section: Parental Supp Ort For Children ' S Socioemotional De Velopmentioning

confidence: 99%

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When you go low, I go high: Negative coordination of physiological synchrony among parents and children

Creavy

Gatzke‐Kopp

Zhang

et al. 2019

Developmental Psychobiology

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The parent–child relationship is an important context for children's emotional development. The current study assessed 43 parent–child dyads while watching a positive film clip and a negative film clip, in order to examine whether partner's physiological reactivity demonstrated dyadic synchrony, and whether this was associated with children's prosocial empathy. Respiratory sinus arrhythmia was measured in both caretakers and children (ages 9–14) and a continuous time series was estimated in order to maximize temporal resolution of physiological dynamics. Dyads varied in both the magnitude and direction of synchrony, with correlation coefficients ranging from moderately negative; r = −.44 (increases in one partner correspond to decreases in the other), to moderately positive; r = .55 (increases in one partner correspond to increases in the other). For both conditions, negative synchrony was correlated with higher child‐reported empathy. For the negative mood condition, this effect was moderated by caretaker's emotional acceptance such that positive synchrony was associated with lower levels of empathy among dyads in which caretaker emotional acceptance was lower. These results suggest that positive physiological synchrony during a negative mood condition may not be adaptive for children when their caretaker lacks the skills to appropriately socialize their child's emotional development.

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Section: Parental Support For Children’s Socioemotional Developmentmentioning

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Section: Parental Supp Ort For Children ' S Socioemotional De Velopmentioning

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When you go low, I go high: Negative coordination of physiological synchrony among parents and children

Creavy

Gatzke‐Kopp

Zhang

et al. 2019

Developmental Psychobiology

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“…Parents who have been exposed to traumatic or stressful life events are more likely to engage in negative parent-child interactions and ineffective parenting (Deater-Deckard, 1998). Because parenting behaviors are key to child adjustment and mindfulness training is a promising tool to help military families during reintegration (Gliske et al, 2019), understanding how Observing and Nonreactivity mindfulness may be interactively associated with prospective changes in parenting behaviors via parental inhibitory control as a theoretical mediator will have implications for mindfulness intervention programming for this population.…”

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Linking observing and nonreactivity mindfulness to parenting: Moderated direct and indirect effects via inhibitory control.

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Gewirtz

et al. 2024

Journal of Family Psychology

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To disentangle the effects of key dimensions of dispositional mindfulness on parenting, the present study tests the hypotheses that parental Nonreactivity moderates the association between Observing and effective parenting behaviors, and that parental inhibitory control mediates the relationship between Observing and parenting depending on levels of Nonreactivity. The sample consists of 294 fathers (95.9% deployed) and 313 mothers (81.5% nondeployed) from 336 military families with a child aged between 4 and 13 years at baseline. Parents reported Observing and Nonreactivity at baseline using the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire and completed a computerized Go/No-Go task for assessing inhibitory control at baseline and 1-year follow-up. Families completed a series of in-home interaction tasks at baseline and 2-year follow-up, and effective parenting behaviors were observed and coded using a theory-driven, empirically validated coding system. Results showed that when fathers reported low Nonreactivity, the association between Observing and effective parenting behaviors 2 years later was negative, but this association became positive when fathers reported high Nonreactivity. Fathers' Observing was associated with decreased inhibitory control 1 year later when they reported low (vs. high) Nonreactivity, whereas mothers' Observing was associated with increased inhibitory control 1 year later when they reported high (vs. low) Nonreactivity. The hypothesized effect of inhibitory control as a mediator was not found. Understanding specificity in the effects of dispositional mindfulness dimensions on parenting behaviors will drive effective and efficient designs of mindful parenting interventions. Future research should use dismantling experimental designs to test the synergistic effects of Observing and Nonreactivity in parents.

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“…One approach to bolster cognitive abilities and psychological health is to provide military spouses with intervention programs that are responsive to their lifestyle (Saltzman et al, 2016). Recent recommendations for such programs offer guidance on key factors for effective implementation and delivery in the military community (Gliske et al, 2019;Thomas & Taylor, 2015). The first factor relates to the value of peer support and context familiarity.…”

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“…Thus, a peer-supported approach to intervention delivery (Singla et al, 2014) may be a fruitful avenue in program delivery for military spouses. The second factor relates to the potential of MT as a well-suited intervention for military spouses (Gliske et al, 2019). While there is growing evidence of MT benefits, few evidence-based programs are currently available for military spouses that are accessible and sensitive to the daily life challenges they experience (Kees & Rosenblum, 2015).…”

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Investigating the Impact of Peer-Trainer Delivered Mindfulness Training on Cognitive Abilities and Psychological Health

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Objectives Mindfulness training (MT) has emerged as a promising tool to promote cognitive functioning and psychological health. As a result, demand for scalable dissemination of MT is increasing across many time-pressured settings. One such setting is the military family. Military spouses face numerous challenges and yet there is a paucity of evidence-based training programs available that are tailored to promote their cognitive functioning and psychological health. Methods In the present study, we examined the impact of a 4-week MT program contextualized for military spouses and delivered via a peer train-the-trainer approach by fellow military spouse instructors (SIs). SIs first participated in an MT teaching practicum to learn how to deliver the program. They then delivered the MT program to military spouse participants (MT group, n = 48). The MT group was tested before (T1) and after (T2) the training interval and compared to a no-training control group (NTC group, n = 58) that did not receive MT but completed both testing sessions. Results Compared to the NTC group, the MT group showed benefits on measures of cognitive abilities, psychological health, and well-being. Particularly, benefits were reflected in the decrease over time (T1 to T2) in daily cognitive failures and depressive symptoms. Furthermore, correlation analyses revealed that greater MT practice corresponded with greater improvements in objective attentional performance. Conclusions These findings provide initial evidence for the beneficial effects of a tailored MT program when delivered by peer trainers. Trial Registration Clinicaltrials.gov (NTC03308344).

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Mindfulness Strategies: Supporting Military Parents During Reintegration

Cited by 6 publications

References 89 publications

When you go low, I go high: Negative coordination of physiological synchrony among parents and children

When you go low, I go high: Negative coordination of physiological synchrony among parents and children

Linking observing and nonreactivity mindfulness to parenting: Moderated direct and indirect effects via inhibitory control.

Investigating the Impact of Peer-Trainer Delivered Mindfulness Training on Cognitive Abilities and Psychological Health

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