Parenting-focused mindfulness intervention reduces stress and improves parenting in highly-stressed mothers of adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Parent stress has been associated with negative outcomes for youth and may be particularly high during adolescence. Mindfulness interventions have the potential to reduce parent stress and to improve parenting behavior and parent-child relationship quality. The present randomized controlled study examined effects of a parenting-focused mindfulness intervention, the Parenting Mindfully (PM) intervention, for highly stressed parents of adolescents. Eighty three mothers of 12-17 year olds reporting high stress were randomly assigned to the PM intervention or to a minimal-intervention Parent Education (PE) control group. At pre- and post-intervention, mothers reported on their mindfulness, stress, parenting stress, mindful parenting, and parent-adolescent relationship quality. At pre- and post

SUBMITTER: Tara M Chaplin 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7962755 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature