Mindful Parenting A Guide for Mental Health Practitioners
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 cir
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Susan Bögels Kathleen Restifo
Mindful Parenting A Guide for Mental Health Practitioners
Mindfulness in Behavioral Health Series Editor: Nirbhay N. Singh
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Susan Bögels • Kathleen Restifo
Mindful Parenting A Guide for Mental Health Practitioners
Susan Bögels Child Development and Education University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kathleen Restifo Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience Maastricht University Maastricht, The Netherlands
ISSN 2195-9579 ISSN 2195-9587 (electronic) ISBN 978-1-4614-7405-0 ISBN 978-1-4614-7406-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-7406-7 Springer New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013939586 © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
This book and the program it offers the world 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. 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
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