Letter to the Editor: Mindfulness will only be in decline if we stop being mindful.
Edward Miller
Child and Adolescent Mental Health February 27, 2025 DOI: 10.1111/camh.12759 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Commentary Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Meditation |
| Keywords | Humans Child |
| Key points | Argues that mindfulness researchers have an ethical responsibility to take a careful and considered approach to their work, particularly when investigating children's mental health, and that a recent large trial of a mindfulness-informed school-based intervention raises ethical implications for mindfulness research that warrant further elaboration. |
Abstract
Despite widespread research and academic pressures, mindfulness researchers have an ethical responsibility to take a careful and considered approach to their work, particularly when investigating the mental health of children. This Letter to the Editor addresses an earlier debate article published in the journal by further elaborating on the issues raised by a recent large trial of a mindfulness-informed school-based intervention, and the ethical implications for mindfulness research.
Citations in the library
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- Non-Positive Experiences Encountered by Pupils During Participation in a Mindfulness-Informed School-Based Intervention. School Mental Health July 2, 2023
- DEBATE: The inevitable decline of mindfulness. Child and Adolescent Mental Health November 2022