Mindful Coping Power
The Mindful Coping Power project is an integration of mindfulness with the Coping Power intervention program to reduce reactive aggression in children.
It is funded through a R34 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). The project is being conducted at 4 local elementary schools with 12 students recruited from each school across a two-year intervention period (96 total), with schools divided into one of two conditions: Standard Coping Power or Mindful Coping Power. Group sessions in each condition include a 25-session student component and a 10-session parent component. Pre-intervention, post-intervention, and follow-up assessments include child, parent, and teacher reports and school record review. Constructs assessed as part of this project include emotional/behavioral functioning, mindfulness, hope, gratitude, self-compassion, sleep, temperament, social cognitive functioning, heart rate and skin conductance, parental stress, and parenting behaviors.