Mindful Parenting: The Role of Third Wave Behavior Therapies in Parenting

Aim and The integration of mindfulness with psychotherapy began in the 1970s and has been shown to be highly effective in treating psychological disorders and promoting psychological status in individuals without mental disorders. Improvement of parenting skills is one of the areas in which mindfulness techniques have been utilized as intervention. This paper introduces the mindful parenting model.
Methods and Materials: This simple review (narrative) study was performed through a literature review of articles on parenting indexed in the databases of PubMed, Google Scholar, Science Direct, Scientific Information Database (SID), and Magiran.
Findings: Researches have been conducted on various treatment methods in the area of parenting, including positive parenting and mindful parenting programs.
A review of available literature showed mindful parenting to be effective in different domains such as increasing caregivers’ satisfaction, improving family functioning and parenting skills, and reduction of behavioral problems in children. However, due to the limitations of these studies such as small sample size, and lack of a control group and comparison with previous treatment methods in parenting, further studies are necessary.