Mindfulness-based parenting programs to improve social and emotional outcomes for children and their parents

FUNDING SOURCE: The Parenting Research Centre (PRC) of Australia develops and evaluates parenting programmes in Australia and internationally. PRC has funded systematic reviews in the parenting area, including this one. They have no proprietary stake in this area and are a non‐profit, non‐government organisation. They intended to use the information from the review to inform the public about the effectiveness of services using this approach. No PRC studies were identified or included in this review. REVIEW AUTHORS: AS is Head of Department and Professor within the Department of Social Work at Monash University (Australia). He was an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto (Canada) and was the lead on a grant awarded to them from PRC of Australia to support this review. He is an active practitioner of mindfulness meditation and, in his role as Co‐Chair of the Campbell Social Welfare Group, has edited work on mindfulness‐based stress reduction (MBSR). He has no further conflicts of interest to declare. RF is a Senior Teaching Fellow and Research Fellow within the Department of Social Work at Monash University (Australia). She has no further conflicts of interest to declare. JB is Professor of Evidence Based Intervention and Policy Evaluation at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford; an author of numerous systematic reviews in the area of parent training and has conducted trials in this area; is an active practitioner of mindfulness meditation; and was an Editor for Cochrane Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems Group. She has no further conflicts of interest to declare. YS received payment from Monash University (Australia) for research assistance work on this review. She has no further conflicts of interest to declare. ZH received payment from Monash University (Australia) for research assistance work on this review. She has no further conflicts of interest to declare. BL received payment from Monash University (Australia) for research assistance work on this review. She has no further conflicts of interest to declare. LT was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto Factor‐Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and is now employed as an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Laurentian University. The University of Toronto (Canada) received a grant from PRC of Australia. LT is an active practitioner of mindfulness meditation and uses it within her practice. She has no further conflicts of interest to declare.