This book comprehensively reviews mindfulness-based interventions for specific areas of functioning in children and adolescents, with refreshing insights and perspectives. Based on a solid foundation of research and practice, it presents the nature of mindfulness and explores how to assess it. Mindfulness is about how we can be attentive to and present for everything that happens in our daily lives.
Key Features
- Explores the fundamentals of teaching mindfulness to children and adolescents.
- Examines the assessment of mindfulness in this population.
- Discusses the use of mindfulness in educational settings.
- Addresses clinical applications in mental health, including substance abuse, hyperactivity, and intellectual and developmental disabilities.
- Includes contributions from internationally-renowned clinicians and scholars.
- Provides a balanced account of the strengths and weaknesses of current research.
- Highlights how mindfulness-based programs can enhance wellbeing and reduce suffering.
Additional Information
This book will be of great interest for academics, scholars and post graduate students involved in the study of the mental health of children and adolescents. It will also appeal to psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, rehabilitation therapists and others, such as school counsellors, who provide clinical care to children and adolescents.
