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Session 1: Automatic Parenting

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What went through your mind when you read this? If you’re like many parents, you can imagine only too well the sense of stress accompanying this scene. Maybe you can imagine the feelings of helplessness, anxiety, anger, and stress; maybe you can even imagine the feeling of tension rising in your chest, your impatience, the thoughts that might run through your mind, and what you might say and do.

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    From Bögels and Restifo (Springer, 2013). Permission to copy this handout is granted to purchasers of this book for personal use or use with individual clients only. For best readability enlarge 125 %.

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    From Bögels and Restifo (Springer, 2013). Permission to copy this handout is granted to purchasers of this book for personal use or use with individual clients only. For best readability enlarge 125 %.

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    From Bögels and Restifo (Springer, 2013). Permission to copy this handout is granted to purchasers of this book for personal use or use with individual clients only. For best readability enlarge 125 %.

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    From Bögels and Restifo (Springer, 2013). Permission to copy this handout is granted to purchasers of this book for personal use or use with individual clients only. For best readability enlarge 125 %.

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    From Bögels and Restifo (Springer, 2013). Permission to copy this handout is granted to purchasers of this book for personal use or use with individual clients only. For best readability enlarge 125 %.

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Bögels, S., Restifo, K. (2014). Session 1: Automatic Parenting. In: Mindful Parenting. Mindfulness in Behavioral Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7406-7_5

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