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Mindfulness for Adolescents in Counseling, Behavioral Health, and Medical Settings

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Many adolescents experience personal challenges involving medical and behavioral health concerns including substance abuse and addictions. Treatment for these challenges occurs in outpatient and inpatient settings through personal, group, and family counseling. Mindfulness-based interventions are often offered as an aspect of treatment in these settings and the number of these interventions has steadily increased. Thus, this chapter examines the research about opportunities and benefits derived from mindfulness-based interventions for adolescents in these diverse settings. A case example illustrates the application of a mindfulness-based program for adolescents in a behavioral health setting.

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    Betsy L. Wisner

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Books

Baer (2014)

Mindfulness-based Treatment Approaches: Clinician’s Guide to Evidence Base and Applications

Biegel (2009)

Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction for Teens

Hayes, Strosahl, and Wilson (2012)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: TheProcess and Practice of Mindful Change

Linehan (2014)

DBT Skills Training Manual

Miller, Rathus, and DeBose (2007)

Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents

Rathus & Miller (2014)

DBT® Skills Manual for Adolescents

Semple & Lee (2014)

Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Children

Turrell & Bell (2016)

ACT for Adolescents: Treating Teens and Adolescents in Individual and Group Therapy

 

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Wisner, B.L. (2017). Mindfulness for Adolescents in Counseling, Behavioral Health, and Medical Settings. In: Mindfulness and Meditation for Adolescents. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95207-6_5

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