Family-Based Mindful Eating Intervention for Overweight Adolescents

Adolescents will learn mindfulness and meditation, how to be mindful when eating, mindful yoga, how to recognize hunger cures, understand emotional eating, trigger foods and how to apply mindful eating in social situations.

Adolescents will receive learn same techniques as adolescents in Adolescent Mindful Eating Group. The group component of the parent intervention is designed for parents only and will be run parallel to the adolescent group. The goal of these sessions is to teach parents skills to support adolescent by developing effective parenting styles, parenting skills, strategies around eating behavior change, productive problem solving, and the role of all other family members with regard to the treatment process. The last five sessions will be dedicated to teaching a slightly reduced MEAL adult protocol to allow parents to learn mindfulness skills as it applies to their own eating behaviors and affective reactivity.