In this panel discussion, presenters, including Dr. Liliana Lengua, discuss popular parenting styles such as free range, attachment, and helicopter parenting.
Parenting styles – what do the UW experts say?

In this panel discussion, presenters, including Dr. Liliana Lengua, discuss popular parenting styles such as free range, attachment, and helicopter parenting.
Dr. Lynn Katz examined maternal emotion socialization and children’s emotion regulation as a pathway that may protect IPV‐exposed children from developing PTSS and depression.
In this study, Drs. Lengua and Thompson examined growth in effortful control in relation to income, cumulative risk, and adjustment in 306 preschool-age children from families representing a range of income.
In this study, Dr. Lynn Katz and colleagues aimed to examine whether respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA)—a physiological index of children’s emotion regulation—moderates the relation between cancer diagnosis and internalizing problems in children.
In this study, Dr. Lynn Katz tested whether cancer survivorship moderates the relation between maternal directiveness—one aspect of intrusiveness—and children’s internalizing problems.
Drs. Liliana Lengua and Suzanne Kerns, University of Denver, offer tips on how to bring mindfulness into your everyday interactions with your child.