Applied Mindfulness: Approaches in Mental Health for Children and Adolescents

by Victor G. Carrión

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Author: Victor G. Carrión

Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc

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ISBN 10: 1615372121
ISBN 13: 978-1615372126

Applied Mindfulness: Approaches in Mental Health for Children and Adolescents starts from the premise that mental health clinicians must have their own mindfulness practice before teaching the tenets and techniques of mindfulness to others, including young people. To that end, the book offers readers clear instructions on how to first practice mindfulness in their own lives and then extend their personal practice outward to others. Once this knowledge is internalized, the clinician can focus on mindfulness in terms of its application to specific clinical diagnoses, such as anxiety and depression, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and substance abuse. Because many mental health professionals work in multiple settings, such as in schools, in clinics, and online, the contributors, representing a wide range of creative and authoritative voices, explain how to skillfully tailor mindfulness interventions for effective application across diverse contexts. Drs. Carrion and Rettger, as Director of the Stanford Early Life Stress and Pediatric Anxiety Program (SELSPAP) and Director of SELSPAP's Mindfulness Program, respectively, have been engaged in ongoing community-based work delivering mindfulness and yoga programming to underserved youth and their helpers. This expertise is evident in their eloquent yet down-to-earth editing.The volume offers clinicians everything they need to begin their mindfulness journey, including the following: ? Introductory knowledge on how to get started with a meditation practice. Specific mindfulness scripts are provided throughout the book to foster development of the reader's own practice. In addition, there are audio practices and clear written descriptions of practices to offer support for those learning to meditate, internalize mindfulness practices, and then adapt these skills for clinical practice. ? A developmental and ecological approach to implementing mindfulness. The book offers insight into integrating mindfulness across many settings, platforms, and applications, and includes chapters on mindfulness online, at home, and in school, as well as chapters on incorporating nature into mindfulness practice and the relationship between mindfulness and creativity. ? Material on specific clinical populations, including immigrant youth and incarcerated youth. A special chapter is devoted to trauma-informed yoga, which has been shown to be an effective therapeutic intervention for youth who have been incarcerated.? Comprehensive information on the current state of youth mindfulness research, which prepares readers to discuss these topics knowledgeably with colleagues and patients.

Like ripples in water, the benefits of mindfulness spread outward, from clinicians to patients, families, schools, and communities. Applied Mindfulness: Approaches in Mental Health for Children and Adolescents is the first step toward stress reduction, peace, and compassion for a new generation.

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Divided into three parts, this text explores the application of mindfulness to specific populations, such as incarcerated youth, immigrants, and those with a substance use disorder. It invites the reader to think creatively in terms of settings: home, school, and out in nature. --Tim Ryan, U.S. Representative, 13th Ohio District

At a time when mindfulness-based approaches to promoting well-being are growing in popularity, Drs. Carrión and Rettger have assembled an outstanding and comprehensive volume of chapters that provide evidence-based guidance from authorities with years of experience applying mindfulness-based approaches in their work with children and youth. --Patricia Jennings, Ph.D., M.Ed., Associate Professor, Curry School of Education and Human Development, University of Virginia

This groundbreaking volume will find utility with every professional who cares for children and act as a tremendous resource for those who wish to use these techniques in the clinical setting. --James R. Doty, M.D., Founder and Director, Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education; Professor of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine; Senior Editor, The Oxford Handbook of Compassion Science

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Applied Mindfulness: Approaches in Mental Health for Children and Adolescents is a tool for mental health clinicians who work with children, adolescents, and transitional-age youth. The book is premised on the truth that teaching mindfulness is not a skill that can be picked up by reading an instructional manual; clinicians must first practice mindfulness themselves. The strategies presented in the text must be felt, experienced, lived, and reflected on by the clinician, who will then be inspired and will be equipped to assist others. The editors have carefully selected both the contributors, who represent leading and emerging thinkers, and the topics, which have wide therapeutic applications. Divided into four parts, the book begins with an introduction to clinical mindfulness that addresses the current state of the field and provides an essential knowledge foundation for working with youth. The next part offers mindfulness strategies and protocols directed toward specific clinical scenarios, and in the following two parts, the authors consider how mindfulness can help specific patient populations who struggle with traumatic events. The final part offers examples of how to integrate mindfulness into a variety of settings, including home, work, school, and the natural world.

Mindfulness can help to counteract the high levels of stress experienced by young people today. Applied Mindfulness: Approaches in Mental Health for Children and Adolescents is that rare book that promises to change not just the patient but the clinician as well.

About the Author

Victor G. Carrión, M.D., is John A. Turner, M.D. Endowed Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; and Director, Early Life Stress and Pediatric Anxiety Program, at Stanford University.

John P. Rettger, Ph.D., is Mindfulness Program Director, Early Life Stress and Pediatric Anxiety Program, School of Medicine, at Stanford University.

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