Changing Parent's Mindfulness, Child Management Skills and Relationship Quality With Their Youth: Results From a Randomized Pilot Intervention Trial

Mindfulness has emerged as a promising new technique and may be useful in the context of parenting. Changes in parenting outcomes (e.g., child management, parent-child relationship) were compared between groups of mother-child dyads assigned to either an original Strengthening Families Program (SFP) group, a mindfulness-added intervention group, or a wait-list control. Mothers who received mindfulness-added SFP had more mindful parenting and better parent-child relationships post-treatment.