Mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Practices in the School Setting

• Offers specific, easy-to-implement mindfulness and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) tools for practitioners to use in the schools at an individual, group, or classroom-wide level
• Discusses substantial research supporting mindfulness and ACT based interventions for school-aged children and its benefits, including increasing their capacity for attention, compassion, emotional regulation, and self-calming abilities, in addition for use as an intervention for anxiety, depression, and trauma related symptoms
• Follows a multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) model, including school/classroom wide, group, and individual interventions, setting this book apart from other publications