Mindful Parenting: A Guide for Mental Health Practitioners

by Susan Bögels, Kathleen Restifo

Despite its inherent joys, the challenges of parenting can produce considerable stress. These challenges multiply―and the quality of parenting suffers―when a parent or child has mental health issues, or when parents are in conflict. Even under optimal circumstances, the constant changes as children develop can tax parents' inner resources, often undoing the best intentions and parenting courses. Mindful A Guide for Mental Health Practitioners offers an evidence-based, eight week structured mindfulness training program for parents with lasting benefits for parents and their children. Designed for use in mental health contexts, its methods are effective whether parents or children have behavioral or emotional issues. The program's eight sessions focus on mindfulness-oriented skills for parents, such as responding to (as opposed to reacting to) parenting stress, handling conflict with children or partners, fostering empathy, and setting limits. The book dovetails with other clinical mindfulness approaches, and is written clearly and accessibly so that professionals can learn the material easily and impart it to clients. Featured in the   Its clinical focus and empirical support make Mindful Parenting an invaluable tool for practitioners and clinicians in child, school, and family psychology, psychotherapy/counseling, psychiatry, social work, and developmental psychology.

Genres: Parenting

347 pages, Hardcover

First published July 22, 2013

Reviews

[Tiana · Rating 5 out of 5]

A perfect step-by-step guide for parenting groups dealing with stress and teaching mindfulness. I like that the handouts were also listed, with recommendations for follow-up meetings, and discussion themes for each activity.