Dr. Christopher Willard provides an overview of mindfulness concepts and multiple examples of practices and strategies for parents and professionals to share with children and teens.
Making Mindfulness Stick with Kids and Teens
Focus Area: Child & Youth Well-Being & Resilience
Creating Authentic Relationships with Youth and Sharing Trauma-Informed Mindfulness
Dr. Sam Himelstein offers perspectives on defining and sharing mindfulness in an innovative and relevant way for providers working with youth, including teaching formal meditation.
Preliminary evaluation of an innovative, brief parenting program designed to promote self-regulation in parents and children
In this study, Dr. Lengua and collaborators conducted preliminary evaluation of a brief parenting program that aims to promote young children’s self-regulation, social–emotional competence, and academic readiness.
Are dimensions of parenting differentially linked to substance use across Caucasian and Asian American college students?
In this study, Dr. Kevin King and colleagues tested whether different dimensions of parenting are differentially associated with substance use outcomes across Caucasians and Asian Americans.
A state-trait model of cortisol in early childhood: Contextual and parental predictors of stable and time-varying effects
In this study, CCFW researchers examined state-trait models of diurnal cortisol and whether income, cumulative risk and parenting behaviors predicted variance in trait and state levels of cortisol.
Parenting as a moderator of the effects of cumulative risk on children’s social–emotional adjustment and academic readiness
This study examined whether parenting moderated the association between cumulative risk and preschool children’s adjustment problems and social competence.