Medical Xpress August 30, 2024
Teaching schoolkids to practice mindfulness can boost their mental health—and, maybe, even their grades.
That’s the takeaway from a new review of more than three dozen research studies on school-based mindfulness interventions, such as seated or slow-walking meditation.
In a nutshell, these programs teach kids to pay attention to the present moment and not to be judgmental about it.
“As mindfulness interventions become more widely used and extensively studied, they hold promise for fostering student well-being and mitigating the development of mental health conditions over time,” Tina Marshall and her colleagues at the Maryland research organization Westat wrote in the journal Psychiatry Online.
Her team reviewed 41 studies published between 2008 and 2022 of school-based mindfulness interventions.
All had at...
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