Applied Mindfulness: A Comprehensive Guide to Mental Health for Children and Adolescents

As mental health clinicians, it’s essential to have a personal mindfulness practice before teaching mindfulness techniques to others, including young people. Applied Mindfulness: Approaches in Mental Health for Children and Adolescents provides a comprehensive guide on how to practice mindfulness, extend it to others, and apply it to specific clinical diagnoses.

The Importance of Personal Mindfulness Practice

The book offers clear instructions on how to start a mindfulness practice, providing readers with the knowledge and skills to internalize mindfulness and then adapt it for clinical practice. With this foundation, clinicians can focus on mindfulness applications for anxiety, depression, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and substance abuse.

Tailoring Mindfulness Interventions for Diverse Contexts

Mental health professionals work in various settings, including schools, clinics, and online. The contributors, representing a wide range of authoritative voices, explain how to tailor mindfulness interventions for effective application across these diverse contexts. The editors, Drs. Carrion and Rettger, share their expertise in delivering mindfulness and yoga programming to underserved youth and their helpers.

A Comprehensive Resource for Clinicians

This volume provides clinicians with everything they need to begin their mindfulness journey, including:

• Introductory knowledge on starting a meditation practice
• Specific mindfulness scripts and audio practices to support development
• A developmental and ecological approach to implementing mindfulness
• Chapters on integrating mindfulness online, at home, and in school
• Material on specific clinical populations, including immigrant youth and incarcerated youth
• A chapter on trauma-informed yoga as a therapeutic intervention
• Comprehensive information on the current state of youth mindfulness research

The Ripple Effect of Mindfulness

As clinicians, families, schools, and communities adopt mindfulness practices, the benefits spread outward, promoting stress reduction, peace, and compassion for a new generation. Applied Mindfulness: Approaches in Mental Health for Children and Adolescents is the first step toward creating a positive impact.