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Despite its inherent joys, parenting can be challenging and stressful. When a parent or child suffers from a mental health issue, these difficulties multiply. Designed for use by clinicians, this book teaches an eight-week structured mindfulness training program for parents, with invaluable handouts and assignments to keep caregiving on track.
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"When we wrote the first edition of our book on mindful parenting, published in 1997, it did not include a formal program for parents, nor a curriculum for training health professionals to teach parents. Such a curriculum is long overdue. We are grateful to the authors for bringing it to life in this form. Their program is both profoundly practical and at the same time, potentially transformative and healing. One of its main virtues is that it spans and unifies two different ways of knowing: that of empirical scientific understanding, in this case clinical and behavioral psychology research, and that of contemplative mindfulness-based programs and practices, which are themselves increasingly resting on a firm scientific foundation. At the same time, these mindfulness-based programs tap into an orthogonal dimension of wisdom and compassion going back several thousand years, mostly derived from the universal elements underlying Buddhist meditation, of which mindfulness is often said to be the heart." - From the Foreword by Jon and Myla Kabat-Zinn
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"When we wrote the first edition of our book on mindful parenting, published in 1997, it did not include a formal program for parents, nor a curriculum for training health professionals to teach parents. Such a curriculum is long overdue. We are grateful to the authors for bringing it to life in this form. Their program is both profoundly practical and at the same time, potentially transformative and healing. One of its main virtues is that it spans and unifies two different ways of knowing: that of empirical scientific understanding, in this case clinical and behavioral psychology research, and that of contemplative mindfulness-based programs and practices, which are themselves increasingly resting on a firm scientific foundation. At the same time, these mindfulness-based programs tap into an orthogonal dimension of wisdom and compassion going back several thousand years, mostly derived from the universal elements underlying Buddhist meditation, of which mindfulness is often said to be the heart."
- From the Foreword by Jon and Myla Kabat-Zinn
Parenting is often the greatest challenge in the full catastrophe of daily life. In this elegant training manual, parents learn to strengthen their capacity for mindfulness and compassion regardless of the conditions of their lives, past or present. Essential mindfulness skills are gently woven into group exercises and psychoeducation about parenting and stress. This how to program will surely be an important resource for couples and family therapists, and a refuge distressed parents, for many years to come.--Christopher Germer, Clinical Instructor, Harvard Medical School, author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion"
This book and the program it offers are a pioneering effort to bring mindfulness into the domain of parenting and the mental health care of stressed families, for the benefit of both the children and their parents... The authors and their colleagues have done research in the field of stress and parenting and have conducted a number of studies to validate their clinical program in mindful parenting... Their articulation of this way of being called mindful parenting will be an inspiration to those seeking to adapt this curriculum in their own settings and in their own lives.--Jon and Myla Kabat-Zinn, from the Foreword
Compelling, grounded and utterly human. Susan and Kathleen present the mindful parenting program that has emerged out of their sustained engagement with their mindfulness practice, with their daily lives as parents, and with the lives of the parents who have participated in their classes. The result is a personal, practical and informative description of the program and its background. A parent training program that focuses on enabling participants to parent their children from the place they and their children are in moment-by-moment, rather than striving towards some idea of how things could or should be. What a relief!--Rebecca Crane, Director, Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, Bangor University, author of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Distinctive Features
Grounded in evidence-based mindful parenting practices, this book will enable therapists to help parents bring full awareness to raising their children with joy, selfless love, compassion and wisdom. It presents a program on mindful parenting in an engaging and elegant style that incorporates personal reflections by the authors and parents who have gone through this course, mindfulness practices, and gentle encouragement to adhere to these practices. Those of us who are parents or grandparents intuitively know that children are little Buddhas who come to teach us patience. This book is a fine preparation for this adventure.--Nirbhay N. Singh, Editor-in-Chief, Mindfulness
Parenting is often the greatest challenge in the 'full catastrophe' of daily life. In this elegant training manual, parents learn to strengthen their capacity for mindfulness and compassion regardless of the conditions of their lives, past or present. Essential mindfulness skills are gently woven into group exercises and psychoeducation about parenting and stress. This 'how to' program will surely be an important resource for couples and family therapists, and a refuge distressed parents, for many years to come.--Christopher Germer, Clinical Instructor, Harvard Medical School, author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion
A brilliant book with enormous practical implications for all parents. Written with great skill and clarity, Susan Bogels and Kathleen Restifo bring together insights from the evolution of parenting with the latest psychological science on compassion, attachment, and schemas. But then they go further, giving us a step-by-step guide through their unique and evidence-based mindful parenting program.This book is a must-read for child and family practitioners but it will also be on the shelves of all mindfulness teachers who wish to understand how to recollect and explore their own experience as a parent or a child, and in doing so, to understand more deeply the entanglements of those who come to them for help.--Mark Williams, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Oxford, author of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Preventing Relapse in Depression
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 Parenting: 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.
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Detailed theoretical, clinical, and empirical foundations of the program.The complete Mindful Parenting manual with guidelines for eight sessions and a follow-up.Handouts and assignments for each session.Findings from clinical trials of the Mindful Parenting program.Perspectives from parents who have finished the course.
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.
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- PublisherNot Avail
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 146147406X
- ISBN 13 9781461474067
- BindingUnknown Binding
- Number of pages338
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