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Christina Salmivalli

2 papers in the library · publishing 2020-2026

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A Lived Experience of Mindfulness-Based Mentalizing Training Program for Parents (MBMP). A Phenomenological Study.

Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry February 23, 2026 Timo Teräsahjo, Sanna Herkama, Christina Salmivalli et al.

Mentalizing, or the ability to understand the mental states underlying oneself and others' overt behaviors, is crucial in parenting due to its association with favorable child development outcomes. This study introduces a new tool, the Mindfulness-Based Mentalizing Training Program for Parents (MBMP), and investigates its potential to enhance parental mentalizing through qualitative analysis....

The relationship between mindfulness meditation and well-being during 8 weeks of ecological momentary assessment

Mindfulness 2020 Oskari Lahtinen, Christina Salmivalli

Abstract: Objectives: The main effects of 8-week mindfulness-based programs (MBP) on anxiety and depression are now supported by reasonably robust evidence. However, few to no studies have looked at whether and how these main effects come to be over the course of the MBP. The goal of the present study was to look at how meditation practice predicted changes in well-being, and vice versa, at a...