Career Path Opportunities
‘Challenges for young researchers’
Career Path Opportunities ‘Challenges for young researchers’
Career Opportunity as a Post-doctoral Fellow(PD)
Hiromi Tobe
After graduating from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies with a Bachelor's Degree in Russian, I worked as a translator for many years. I completed my undergraduate degree in nursing at Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences and my master's degree at the University of Tsukuba. After completing my doctorate at The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, I worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the GNRC for six months and have been appointed as a Project Assistant Professor at the GNRC.
Research conducted at GNRC
Based on the results of my master's research on the effectiveness of an anger
management program for parents and my doctoral research on the effectiveness of a
program to enhance parental resilience, I have been interested and focusing on Mindful
Parenting, which incorporates mindfulness into parenting. I have directly received
Mindful parenting Teacher’ s training from Professor Susan Bogels of the University of
Amsterdam, who is the developer of the program. In 2019, Professor Bogels was invited
to The University of Tokyo to start a joint research project. In 2020, I translated and
published Professor Bogels' book, "Mindful Parenting, Finding space to be in a world of
to do” and has been conducting self-help and group-based intervention research using
this book. She has also invited Nancy Burdeke, president of the Mindful Birthing
Foundation, to Japan to collaborate on a mindfulness program for pregnancy and
childbirth for pregnant mothers and their partners.
I am also developing a Japanese version of the Interpersonal Mindful Parenting Scale
developed by Professor Larissa Duncan of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a
Japanese version of the Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire (PSDQ) in
collaboration with Professor Craig Hart of Brigham Young University.
Future outlook
I have been often asked by research participants, local public health nurses, childcare
supporters, schools, and nursery schools to give lectures based on the programs and
the results of my research. I feel that continuous support is needed. I would like to
further conduct community-based participatory research to examine and develop
sustainable support that enhances the collaboration among parents, supporters, and
professionals.
Accomplishments
JSPS KAKENHI Grand-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up. Grant Number 19K21447.
Development and evaluation of mindful parenting program: a randomized controlled trial.
- Tobe H*, Kita S*, Hayashi M, Umeshita K, Kamibeppu K. Mediating effect of resilience during pregnancy on the association between maternal trait anger and postnatal depression. Compr Psychiatry. 2020;102:152190. * Equally contributed
- Tobe H, Sakka M, Kamibeppu K. The efficacy of a resilience-enhancement program for mothers in Japan based on emotion regulation: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. BMC Psychol. 2019;7(1):69.
