Writing SampleExcerpt from a study design aimed at reducing the prevalence of mood disorders among adolescents.Merikangas et al. (2010) found that the lifetime prevalence of mood disorders among US adolescents is 14%. Although many factors contribute to the development of a mood disorder, parenting style has been shown to be an important mediating variable (Repetti, Taylor, & Seeman, 2002). In our study, we propose socio-cognitive mindfulness training for parents to promote a more flexible parenting style. We will examine whether this intervention improves the quality of parent-child interaction and increases adolescent resilience. To understand why mindfulness training might improve parent-child interactions, it helps to review the history of the construct. Langer & Moldoveaunu (2000) provided a chronological overview of mindfulness research. In their article, they discuss both mindfulness and mindfulness. Although the construct is currently described as a continuum from mindless (or low awareness) to early full awareness, the two have been studied as distinct constructs. Langer's (2012) study defined mindfulness as a process of actively making new distinctions about objects in one's awareness. . This act of actively making new distinctions is part of the overall definition of mindfulness. Langer and Moldoveaunu (2000) have already defined mindfulness as a state of mind of openness to novelty in which the individual actively constructs new categories and distinctions. Mindfulness can therefore be seen as an active state of mind characterized by a new distinction that results in being 1) situated in the present, 2) sensitive to context and perspective, and 3) guided (but not governed). .. in the middle of article ......r & Seeman, 2002). This style of parenting is the opposite of a more conscious form of parenting. Flexibility and the ability to look at situations from different perspectives, which are key concepts of mindfulness, would act as a buffer against a critical and static view. The objective of this study is twofold. First, it aims to determine whether training parents to be more attentive can be used as a strategy to prevent depression in fourteen-year-old adolescents by improving the quality of parent-child interaction. Second, it aims to examine whether mindfulness training can equip parents with the skills to detect depression in their adolescents early. We hypothesize that mindfulness training for parents could improve the quality of parent-child interaction, which in turn could improve adolescents' resilience and well-being..