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Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction; Child Social Development; Intraclass Correlation Coefficient; Parenting Relationship Questionnaire; Social Skills Improvement System
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Parent Stress And Social Skills Development In Children With Developmental Delays, Andrea Lewallen
Parent Stress And Social Skills Development In Children With Developmental Delays, Andrea Lewallen
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
The following dissertation is a compilation of two studies examining the impact of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) on parents of children with developmental delays (DD) and the subsequent effects on child social development. Study one sought to examine whether changes in child social skills occurred after parent stress was reduced through an 8-week MBSR training group, and whether these changes were associated with improvements in parent-child relational factors. Data from 24 families of children with DD (ages 2.5-5) were examined in this study. Paired samples t-tests examining pre-post differences revealed that mothers, secondary informants, and teachers acknowledged improvements in …