Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
Evaluating Mindful With Your Baby/Toddler: Observational Changes in Maternal Sensitivity, Acceptance, Mind-Mindedness, and Dyadic Synchrony
Originally published 2019-04-24 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00753 ↗
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What changes in parent–child interaction were actually observed after this support program?
The study moves beyond reassuring self-report by observing acceptance, attunement and responsiveness in mother–child interactions during a mindful parenting program.
Who was studied?
Fifty clinically referred mothers and their babies or toddlers
Age / stage: Children aged 0–48 months
Read with three questions
- How did the waitlist, pretest and posttest observations differ?
- Which observed parenting changes were supported, and which were not?
- How does nonrandom assignment limit interpretation of improvement?
Keep the limits in view
The design was not randomized and involved a small clinically referred sample. Some findings were parent-reported; improvements cannot confidently be attributed to the training alone or generalized to all families.
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Moniek A.J. Zeegers; Eva S. Potharst; Irena K. Veringa-Skiba; Evin Aktar; Melissa Goris; Susan M. Bögels; Cristina Colonnesi (2019). Evaluating Mindful With Your Baby/Toddler: Observational Changes in Maternal Sensitivity, Acceptance, Mind-Mindedness, and Dyadic Synchrony Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00753
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