Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
Self-Compassion and Parenting in Mothers and Fathers with Depression
Originally published 2016-05-03 · Mindfulness
Springer Science and Business Media LLC · DOI 10.1007/s12671-016-0528-6 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
How might parental self-compassion relate to less critical responses to children?
Includes kindness toward oneself as a parenting-relevant topic. It examines parental self-compassion alongside criticism, explanations of children’s behavior and reactions to children’s emotions, while separating these from unproven child-outcome benefits.
Who was studied?
Mothers and fathers with a history of depression, studied through a pilot trial and a family follow-up sample.
Age / stage: Children in two source samples; see each study’s methods
Read with three questions
- Which parenting responses were associated with greater self-compassion?
- What happened to child-outcome associations after statistical adjustment?
- How do the pilot and longitudinal samples differ?
Keep the limits in view
The samples were limited and child-outcome associations became nonsignificant after adjustment. The paper does not establish that self-compassion treatment prevents children’s psychological problems.
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L Psychogiou; K Legge; E Parry; J Mann; S Nath; T Ford; W Kuyken (2016). Self-Compassion and Parenting in Mothers and Fathers with Depression Mindfulness. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-016-0528-6
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