Treating Anxiety With Mindfulness: An Open Trial of Mindfulness Training for Anxious Children
Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy October 1, 2005 Randye J. Semple, Elizabeth F. G. Reid, Lisa Miller
This study is an open clinical trial that examined the feasibility and acceptability of a mindfulness training program for anxious children. We based this pilot initiative on a cognitively oriented model, which suggests that, since impaired attention is a core symptom of anxiety, enhancing self-management of attention should effect reductions in anxiety. Mindfulness practices are essentially...