Background Mindfulness based interventions (MBI s) are an increasingly popular way of
attempting to improve the behavioural, cognitive and mental health outcomes of children …

Mindfulness interventions aim to foster greater attention to and awareness of present
moment experience. There has been a dramatic increase in randomized controlled trials …

Research indicates that core dimensions of psychological well-being can be cultivated
through intentional mental training. Despite growing research in this area and an increasing …

This article synthesizes knowledge on the role of relationships and key macro and micro-
contexts—poverty, racism, families, communities, schools, and peers—in supporting and/or …

Review of the evidence on, and fundamental questions about, efforts to improve executive
functions, including working memory Page 166 8 Review of the Evidence on, and Fundamental …

We replicated and extended Shoda, Mischel, and Peake's (1990) famous marshmallow
study, which showed strong bivariate correlations between a child's ability to delay …

Mindfulness‐based meditation practices have received substantial scientific attention in
recent years. Mindfulness has been shown to bring many psychological benefits to the …

Importance Childhood and adolescence self-regulation (SR) is gaining importance as a
target of intervention because of mounting evidence of its positive associations with health …

Both basic science and clinical research on mindfulness, meditation, and related constructs
have dramatically increased in recent years. However, interpretation of these research …

In the present meta-analysis all available evidence regarding the efficacy of different
behavioral interventions for children's executive function skills were synthesized. After a …