The Importance of the Emotional Context: Applications of mindfulness based interventions and concepts in four different settings

Session Type: Flash Talk Session

Abstract

Recent research has been uncovering the potential of mindfulness and the importance of understanding the emotional context in supporting health and wellbeing. This Flash Talk Session brings together four presentations that focus on bringing mindfulness-based interventions or look at the power of the emotional context of the intervention provider, such as a teacher, in achieving positive outcomes for intervention participants. The first paper brings a mindfulness based intervention to Chinese migrant children, finding positive effects on a host of outcomes. The second paper looks at outcomes of teachers while the teachers themselves implement a mindfulness based program in their classroom for their students, finding positive effects. The third paper applies one mindfulness based concept, self-compassion, to programs intended to support coping when experienced parental bereavement, which increased during the Covid-19 pandemic. The fourth paper takes the idea of responsive coaching into a parent-child therapy context and shows how different interaction techniques by therapists associate with patient outcomes.

Sub Unit

• Prevention and Interventions

Individual Presentations

• Exploring Psychosocial Benefits of a Mindfulness-based Intervention among Chinese Migrant Children: Using Draw-and-Explain Technique - Presenting Author: Xiaolu Dai, University of Hong Kong (HKU); Ana karen Gonzalez Barajas; Renhui Lyu, University of Hong Kong; Shuang Lu, University of Central Florida

• Teacher Impacts of Implementing a Mindfulness-Based Social Emotional Learning Curriculum for Preschool Students - Presenting Author: Brielle Petit, Portland State University; Eli Labinger, Portland State University; Cristin McDonough; Robert W Roeser, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Andrew J Mashburn, Portland State University

• Self-Compassion for Caregivers of Children in Bereaved Families - Presenting Author: Na Zhang, University of Connecticut; Irwin Sandler; Kara Thieleman; Sharlene A Wolchik; Karey O'Hara, Arizona State University

• Therapists’ Coaching in Parent-Directed Interaction Predicts Outcomes in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy-Emotion Development - Presenting Author: EB Caron, University of Hartford; Jordan Linde, University of Hartford; Miya Barnett, University of California, Santa Barbara; Joan L Luby, Washington University in St. Louis

Moderator

• Shuang Lu, University of Central Florida