Mindfulness for Children, Adolescents, and Families Integrating Research into Practice

This book examines mindfulness-based programs for children and adolescents with diverse needs as well as their parents and other family members. It addresses how a mindfulness approach has been translated to this specific population. Chapters explore theories and evidence in this growing field of interest, adaptations for children and teens with different diagnoses and their families, mindful parenting in relation to the developmental needs of children, implementation issues in everyday life, and the required competencies of mindfulness instructors.

 Key areas of coverage include:

• Application of mindfulness-based programs to address the developmental tasks and diverse needs of children and adolescents encountering challenges in mental health and social care.
• Mindfulness-based programs for parents and teachers and their impacts on children.
• Implementation science and ethics of mindfulness training across child developmental stages.

 Mindfulness for Children, Adolescents, and Families is an essential resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and allied practitioners in developmental psychology, school psychology, child and adolescent psychology, social work, public health, pediatrics, complementary and alternative medicine, and all related disciplines.

Herman Hay Ming Lo, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is a Registered Social Worker and an approved counseling supervisor in Hong Kong. Dr. Lo has received extensive professional training in mindfulness, and he is a certified MBSR (mindfulness-based stress reduction) teacher at the Brown Mindfulness Center and a certified trainer from the International Academy of Mindful Teaching at the Netherlands. With extensive family and mental health practice experience, Dr. Lo is one of the few scholars with a research focus on application of mindfulness-based programs in parenting and family caregiving.