Assessing the Efficacy of an Adapted In-Class Mindfulness-Based Training Program for School-Age Children: A Pilot Study
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Many children today, particularly in economically-disadvantaged areas, are struggling in a variety of domains: academically, psychologically and cognitively. For example, 75% of 12 grade public school students in the United States are not doing math at grade level and 60% are not reading at grade level (Children’s Defense Fund, 2008). On average in the United States, a public school student is suspended every second and every eleven seconds a high school student drops out of school (Children’s Defense Fund, 2008). Mental health problems affect one in every five young people at any given time and only one-third of those that need mental health services are getting them (NIMH, 2009; Wu et al., 2001).
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