Parenting is a critical component of child welfare’s intervention efforts; however, child welfare interventions attempt to correct dysfunctional parenting practices rather than address their shared underlying causes, such as parental stress and trauma. Ongoing stress can overload a parents’ ability to access logical decision-making capabilities. Parents can utilize integrative body, mind, and spirit interventions to remain calm when they experience chronic stress. These interventions can offer stressed out parents techniques that focus on emotional regulation, and subsequently reduce the risk of child maltreatment. This article offers a comprehensive review of the literature identifying parental stress as a critical component of child welfare as well as the usefulness of including integrative mind, body, and spirit interventions with parents in the child welfare system.

育儿是儿童福利干预工作的重要组成部分；然而，儿童福利干预措施试图纠正功能失调的育儿做法，而不是解决他们共同的根本原因，例如父母的压力和创伤。持续的压力会使父母无法做出合理的决策。当父母经历长期压力时，他们可以利用身体、思想和精神的综合干预来保持冷静。这些干预措施可以为压力大的父母提供专注于情绪调节的技巧，从而降低虐待儿童的风险。本文全面回顾了将父母压力确定为儿童福利的重要组成部分的文献，以及包括综合思想、身体、