Full Description
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, examines the psychological processes that may underlie 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. This book draws upon current research in the field in order to explore topics such as the fundamentals of teaching mindfulness to children and adolescents; assessment of mindfulness in this population; use of mindfulness in educational settings; and clinical applications in mental health, including substance abuse, hyperactivity, and intellectual and developmental disabilities. With contributions from internationally-renowned clinicians and scholars, this book provides a balanced account of the strengths and weaknesses of current research, and how mindfulness-based programs can be used to enhance wellbeing and reduce suffering.
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, psychiatrist, nurses, social workers, rehabilitation therapists and others, such as school counsellors, who provide clinical care to children and adolescents.
Contents
Part 1: Foundations
Mindfulness-Based Interventions with Children and Adolescents
Nirbhay N. Singh and Subhashni D. Singh Joy
Mindfulness: Definitions, Attributes, and Mechanisms
Ajahn Amaro and Nirbhay N. Singh
Assessment of Mindfulness in Children and Adolescents
Sarah A. Potts, Michael P. Twohig, Grayson M. Butcher, and Michael E. Levin
Part 2: Research
Mindfulness in Education
Joshua C. Felver and Mary Katherine A. Lee
Mindfulness in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Esther I. de Bruin, Renée Meppelink, and Susan Bögels
Mindfulness in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Nirbhay N. Singh and Yoon-Suk Hwang
Mindfulness in Mental Health
Nirbhay N. Singh and Subhashni D. Singh Joy
Part 3: Practice
Teaching Mindfulness to Children
Monica M. Jackman
Teaching Mindfulness to Adolescents
Nirbhay N. Singh and Subhashni D. Singh Joy
Teaching Mindfulness to Parents, Caregivers, and School Teachers
Nirbhay N. Singh, Giulio E. Lancioni, and Rachel E. Myers
Index
