Mindfulness for Teens
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40 minutes
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Overview
Mindfulness helps adolescents discover their thought and mood patterns, learn to be present, and better cope with difficult emotions. Learn about the benefits of integrating mindfulness into treatment with adolescents and how to increase adolescents' receptiveness to mindfulness and overall wellbeing.
Learning objectives
- List the benefits of integrating mindfulness into treatment with adolescents
- Explain how clinicians can increase adolescent's receptiveness and application of mindfulness
- Describe a conceptual map of why mindfulness is a beneficial intervention for adolescents
- Discuss how mindfulness creates a pause between stimulus and response, which improves an adolescent's ability to respond to life's problems rather than reacting
- Demonstrate fun and practical mindfulness interventions for adolescents
Added on 5/28/2020