Mindful Parenting for Parents With SEN Adolescents
Effectiveness of Mindfulness Program for Parents of Children With SEN
The University of Hong Kong
120 participants
Aug 9, 2024
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
The goal of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an online eight-week mindful parenting program for parents of adolescents with special needs and its impact on parents' wellbeing and behaviors of their adolescents with SEN(s). Researchers will randomize the participants into the immediate intervention group (to start the intervention soon after recruitment) and the waitlist control group (to start the intervention after the immediate intervention group) so as to compare the changes between the two groups. The participants will join the 8-week mindful parenting intervention and one follow-up session. They will be asked to fill in the questionnaires at baseline, after the 8-week intervention, and at the follow-up sessions. Training sessions will be audio-taped and transcripted. The conversation during the zoom classes and participants' sharing on their subjective experience related to mindfulness practices will be analysed.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria3
- with one adolescent child with special educational need(s)
- being the major caregiver for the adolescent for at least one year
- Cantonese speaker
Exclusion Criteria8
- schizophrenia-spectrum disorder
- bipolar disorder
- substance abuse
- developmental disabilities
- physical disabilities
- with active psychotic symptoms
- high suicidal risks
- experiencing a recent personal crisis
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Interventions
The current study adopts the Mindful Parenting program developed by Prof Susan Bögels (Bögels \& Restifo, 2013), which is an application of mindfulness-based intervention which aims to improve parenting by reducing parents' own stress levels, decreasing parental automatic reactivity, increasing open and unbiased attitudes towards children, and decreasing inter-generational dysfunctional parenting (Bögels et al., 2014). The program consists of eight consecutive weeks of parent groups and one follow-up session two months after the last session. Each parent group will include 15-20 participants. The original Mindful Parenting Program will last for around 3 hours for each session, with the longest practice of 40 minutes. Considering parents recruited in the study may have a higher risk of psychiatric conditions than the general population, each session of mindful parenting group will be reduced to 2 to 2.5 hours with the longest mindfulness practice of 30 minutes (Baer et al., 2019).
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NCT06522243