Mindfulness Training in Childhood

摘要

Mindfulness is a way of attending - an attentional practice - that is derived from Asian contemplative traditions but has been secularized (and Westernized) in the context of clinical psychology [e.g., Segal, Williams, & Teasdale, 2002] and the emerging field of contemplative neuroscience [e.g., Lutz, Donne, & Davidson, 2007]. A major impetus for contemporary research on mindfulness was the creation of mindfulness-based stress reduction, a therapeutic intervention developed by Kabat-Zinn [1982] that, together with variants such as mindfulness-based cognitive therapy [Segal et al., 2002], is now widely used to improve functioning in patients with a variety of disorders, from depression and anxiety disorders to chronic pain [for a review, see Grossman, Niemann, Schmidt, & Walach, 2004].