Acceptance and Mindfulness Treatments for Children and Adolescents by Laurie Greco

Author:Laurie Greco
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781608826827
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

An overview of the mindfulness course we offer to children is presented in table 1 (a detailed child MBSR program manual will be published soon; Saltzman, in press). Due to page limitations for [the print edition of] this chapter, we have chosen to describe one class in detail and to follow that with brief descriptions of the practices unique to this curriculum for children (see Additional Exercises and Practices, below). All of the formal guided practices can be found on the CDs Still Quiet Place: Mindfulness for Young Children (Saltzman, 2004) and Still Quiet Place: Mindfulness for Teens (Saltzman, forthcoming). For a description of practices that are shortened and adapted from the adult curriculum, please refer to Full Catastrophe Living, by Jon Kabat-Zinn (1990).

The outline below is a brief sketch of our program. Ultimately every group creates its own masterpiece—moving lines, adding shading and color to reveal depth and perspective. Each session, and the course overall, must be responsive to the individuals and experiences in the room. It is particularly important to attend to children’s natural desire for movement. Sometimes it is skillful to let the children sit with their restlessness and notice the associated sensations, thoughts, and feelings. Other times it is skillful to let them be seaweed, or to dance, drum, or do hasty walking or energetic yoga.

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