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Running Mindful Parenting groups, we as trainers have been impressed by the depth and breadth of the effects of the course on most participants, as we have illustrated with case examples in Session 8 and the follow-up session. However, we should be aware of the rose-tinted glasses that we as therapists wear when we evaluate subjectively the effects of what we do: research has shown that therapists tend to strongly overestimate their effects (Margraf, p.c., April 2012). An objective assessment of the effects of a course by all participants, including the ones who have not completed the course (the so-called treatment dropouts), or have not completed all measurement moments (the so-called measurement dropouts), is therefore important to estimate the true effects of Mindful Parenting, also in order to compare it to other interventions focusing on parenting, such as Parent Management Training, and to other interventions focusing on decreasing problem behavior in children.
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Bögels, S., Restifo, K. (2014). Effects of the Mindful Parenting Course. In: Mindful Parenting. Mindfulness in Behavioral Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7406-7_3
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