Association Between Mindful Parenting and Adolescents’ Internalizing Problems: Non-judgmental Acceptance of Parenting as Core Element

Journal of Child and Family Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1117-1128

  Geurtzen, Naline ^a   Scholte, Ron H J ^a   Engels, Rutger C M E ^a   Tak, Yuli R ^a   van Zundert, Rinka M P ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Anxiety; Depression; Mindful parenting; Self compassion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893156222     PISSN: 10621024     EISSN: 15732843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10826-014-9920-9     Document Type: Article

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