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The current study seeks to searching the best causal structural model that interprets the relationship between quality of relation among parents and sons, and mindfulness, sympathy and compassionate communication for the parents of teenagers who are the study sample. The study was applied on a sample of teenagers’ parents from the students of the Faculty of Graduate studies for Education in the second semester of 2017 – 2018 numbered (125) male and female students. The study used four tools that are (the compassionate communication scale – mindfulness Questionnaire- Empathy scale – quality of relation among parents and son’s questionnaire) after investigating their psychometric properties and their validity to measure the study variables. The results referred to the existence of significant and overall positive effect of mindfulness on sympathy as the parents of teenagers realize, while there was not indirect effect of mindfulness on sympathy as parents of teenagers realize, there was significant and overall direct and indirect positive effect of mindfulness on compassionate communication as parents of teenagers realize, there was also significant and overall indirect positive effect of mindfulness on quality of relation among parents and sons as parents of teenagers realize, while there was not direct effect of mindfulness on quality of relation among parents and sons as parents of teenagers realize. There was significant and overall direct positive effect of sympathy on the compassionate communication as parents of teenagers realize, while there was not indirect effect of sympathy on the compassionate communication as parents of teenagers realize. There was significant and overall direct and indirect positive effect of sympathy on quality of relation among parents and sons as parents of teenagers realize, and lastly there was significant and overall direct positive effect of the compassionate communication on quality of relation among parents and sons as parents of teenagers realize, while there was not indirect effect of the compassionate communication on quality of relation among parents and sons as parents of teenagers realize. The study ended to a conclusion of a causal relationship model of the quality of relation among parents and sons, and mindfulness, sympathy and the compassionate communication as parents of teenagers realize. It is predictable that the study results will benefit the specialists in the field of family counseling in designing the counseling programs that aim at improving the quality of relationship among parents and sons at the teenage stage. (Published abstract)