Mindfulness and acceptance and commitment practices in the school setting : practical interventions for children and adolescents / Melissa L. Holland, PhD, Jessica L. Hawkes, PhD.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction to Mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Practices 2. Research on Mindfulness and ACT Interventions 3. Mindfulness Techniques for Individual Work 4. Acceptance and Commitment Strategies for Individual Work 5. Mindfulness and ACT Strategies for Small Group Work 6. Mindfulness and ACT Strategies for Classroom and School-Wide Programming 7. Creating Systemic Change and Adapting Practices for Different Populations 8. Mindfulness and ACT Techniques for Adult Stakeholders 9. Evaluating Outcomes and Conclusion

"This book offers specific, easy-to-implement mindfulness and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) tools for practitioners to use in schools at an individual, group, or classroom-wide level. With the increased focus on the emotional and behavioral health of children in the schools, there is a dearth of practical books that specifically address the use of ACT techniques in the school setting. Geared toward the practitioner and how they work with students, teachers, parents, and classrooms, this book introduces a contemporary approach to targeted intervention and discusses how these services can be provided using a MTSS model. These interventions have numerous benefits including increasing attention capacity, compassion, emotional regulation, and self-calming abilities, in addition for use as an intervention for anxiety, depression, and trauma related symptoms. Graduate students and practitioners who work with children and adolescents such as school psychologists, child and adolescent clinical psychologists, and school counselors will find this book to be a novel resource of interventions for children in grades K-12, along with tools to support parents and teachers"-- Provided by publisher.