Her program of research is focused on investigating the ways in which mindfulness and mindful parenting may promote psychological well-being, the quality of family relationships, and adaptive coping with stress. She is engaged in a number of intervention research projects aimed at investigating the psychological, behavioral, and physical health effects of mindfulness-based interventions. Her team also conducts basic research on the measurement of mindfulness and mindful parenting using 1st and 3rd-person report, observational, and physiological assessment paradigms. Dr. Duncan developed a questionnaire measure of mindful parenting, the Interpersonal Mindfulness in Parenting (IM-P) scale that is now in use in parenting studies in five countries.