title: The Mindfulness-enhanced Strengthening Families Program: integrating brief mindfulness activities and parent training within an evidence-based prevention program.
abstract: Teaching mindfulness to parents as well as adolescents through a family-centered intervention approach can have a positive impact on the parent-youth relationship. In mindful parenting, caretakers are aware of their own feelings and emotions, and interact with their adolescents in a mindful way by demonstrating emotional awareness, attentive listening, nonjudgment, self-regulation, and compassion. This chapter discusses the need for family-centered mindfulness approaches in adolescence. It introduces the Mindfulness-enhanced Strengthening Families Program, describes specific program activities and their theoretical rationale, and presents initial empirical evidence from pilot studies of the intervention.
authors.affiliation: Colorado State University.
authors.forename: J Douglas
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Coatsworth
authors.forename: Larissa G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Duncan
authors.forename: Elaine
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Berrena
authors.forename: Katharine T
authors.initials: KT
authors.lastname: Bamberger
authors.forename: Daniel
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authors.lastname: Loeschinger
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authors.lastname: Greenberg
authors.forename: Robert L
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authors.lastname: Nix
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D064866:Mindfulness / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education*
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