TESTING A MINDFULNESS-BASED PROGRAM ON A NON-CLINICAL SAMPLE OF ROMANIAN CHILDREN
TESTING A MINDFULNESS-BASED PROGRAM ON A NON-CLINICAL SAMPLE OF ROMANIAN CHILDREN

Summary/Abstract: Mindfulness-based therapeutic interventions are used for a large area of physical and psychological problems in adult and elderly people, including anxiety disorders, personality disorders, chronic pain and anger. Recently, researchers have started to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based programs on children. The aim of this study is to test the effects of a Mindfulness-based Program (MBP) on the levels of internalization, externalization and attention-related problems of children (41 participants, average age of 8.5 years, SD = 0.4), as compared to the effects of a standard procedure, i.e., Rational Stories program for children. The results revealed that the Mindfulness-based Program had higher effects than the Rational Stories program on the decrease of the attention-related problems, while no statistically significant differences were found at levels of internalizing and externalizing problems (i.e., both programs were associated with a decrease of the two types of problems).

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