Mindful Parenting Paperback by Susan Bogels,Phd;Kathleen Restifo,Phd

Product Details

• Publisher: Norton Professional Books (2015-02-10)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 320 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780393709926
• Item Weight: 601.02 grams
• Dimensions: 9.25 x 6.1 x 1.1 cm

Teaching parents how to remain calm in the face of child-rearing stress.

Despite its inherent joys, parenting can be challenging and stressful. When a parent or child suffers from a mental health issue, these difficulties multiply.

In this pioneering synthesis of mindfulness practices and parenting skills, Bögels and Restifo lay out the clinically proven eight-week program they developed for parents of children and adolescents in outpatient mental health care. A practical manual grounded in scientifically rigorous research, the forms and exercises they developed are tailored to helping parents develop stronger bonds with their children and take better care of themselves and its invaluable handouts and assignments will help keep caregiving on track.

About the Author

Susan Bögels, PhD, is a professor in Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on the intergenerational transmission of psychopathology, through parent–child and family interactions, with a specific focus on the father; on the role of attentional processes in psychopathology; and on child and family interventions, including mindfulness. She is also the director of the academic center for the treatment of parents and children, UvA minds, in which evidence-based cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness interventions are offered to families. She was a member of the workgroup on Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum, Posttraumatic, and Dissociative Disorders of the DSM-5.

Kathleen Restifo, PhD, is a clinical and developmental psychologist specializing in family interventions for children and parents with emotional disorders. She is a practicing family therapist and a mindfulness trainer. Her clinical interests include integrating mindfulness and compassion practices with psychotherapeutic approaches for children, couples, and families. Her research interests include evolutionary perspectives on parenting stress, effects of mindfulness-based interventions on children, and family processes in development of psychopathology. She is the founder of Mindful Families, a center which provides mindfulness and psychotherapy for children, parents, and families, and is adjunct faculty at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands.