Mindful Minutes Curriculum: A Case Study

Challenges due to poverty could be addressed by providing financial assistance, food, and clothing. Time spent with parents is essential when dealing with children who have behavioral issues because parents or guardians may not have the funds or time to spend with their children due to other obligations needed to support the family. Parents and guardians play a major role in helping children grow and develop to their fullest potential. As children grow, they depend on their parents or guardians for basic needs and support such as food, shelter, education, protection, and care. During their life difficulties and times of crisis, they depend on family for guidance. Mental disorders in childhood and adolescence can

Health providers must evaluate and alleviate a child's physical, psychological, and social distress. The estimated global

Crick and Dodge (1994) outlined an information-processing model designed to provide further understandings of children’s social adjustment. This information-processing model has six stages that describe the flow of information through the processing system, and provides a useful theoretical understanding to evaluate children’s cognitive deficits and distortions (Daleiden & Vasey, 1997). Fundamental proposals of Crick and Dodge’s (1994) model suggests that children approach social situations with a set of biologically limited capabilities, possess an individualized database of past experiences, and behavioral responses are a function of processing situational and internal cues. This model has been applied to generate novel hypothesis to increase knowledge of the development of childhood anxiety (Daleiden & Vasey, 1997), executive functioning skills among children (Granvald & Marciszko, 2016), and childhood aggression (Song et al., 2016; Oostermeijer et al., 2016). It is postulated that an information-processing model can be utilized to better understand the mechanisms underlying mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs), and generate hypotheses into recent research that has demonstrated the effectiveness of Soles of the Feet (Felver, J. C., & Singh, N. N., in preparation), which is a recently developed

Related behavioral issues such as substance abuse, domestic violence, and many others, remain persistent problems throughout their adult life. About 1 million abused children are identified each year in the United States, and the care costs for preventable problems are significant, so much so that mental disorders are one of the five most costly children conditions in the United States since 2006. Care expenditures rose from 35.2 billion to 57.5 billion that year. Access to mental health care is an ongoing problem especially within low-income, immigrant, and/or disadvantaged communities. Children, youth, and families forego mental healthcare despite the self-reported need. Commonly cited reasons are: the inability to pay, lack of time, and

This research conducted by David Black and Randima Fernando, 2011 explores the question in improved classroom behavior that may arise from mindfulness trainings executed amongst lower-income and ethnic minority elementary school children. I resorted to this frame of topic because I have always had a high interest in the effects of mindfulness and questioned the benefits of its implementation as an adult but more so pertaining to the behavior

THOMPSON, RA; HASKINS, R. (2014) “Early Stress Gets under the Skin Promising Initiatives to Help Children Facing Chronic Adversity. Future of Children”.

Mindfulness practitioners and teachers have been coming forth with the consequences of teachers with minimal training. Some National Health Service (NHS) trusts have been persuading health professionals to teach mindfulness after only going through one round, 8-weeks, of these Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy practices. Lokhadi Lloyd, for example, is an experienced psychotherapist and mindfulness meditation teacher in London and has brought up these problems. Generally, when some people practice, things can get undesirable before desired outcomes surface. With less training being required of a teacher, they are not as prone to help those practicing under them in a beneficial way. Dr. Farias also agrees

Mindfulness, in particular, is associated with perspective taking and empathetic responding, relatedness and interpersonal closeness, and emotional communication, and anger management. Therefore, mindfulness may help a teacher be more responsive to individual students. Teaching is an extremely emotionally-demanding profession. Fortunately, studies show that mindfulness-based interventions may promote resilience and reduce the emotional exhaustion that precedes burnout. This can help teachers promote their own sense of well being and self care, in turn maintaining their care and compassion for their students.

Mindfulness training provides a treatment option that helps an individual focus and attend to conditions that give rise to maladaptive behavior. Using a multiple baseline design, this study assessed the effectiveness of a mindfulness training procedure in modulating the aggressive behavior of three adolescents who were at risk of expulsion from school because of this behavior. The adolescents were able to learn the mindfulness procedure successfully and use it in situations that previously occasioned aggressive behavior. This led to large decreases in the aggression of all three individuals with conduct disorder (Singh, 2007).

I will be discussing my review on the book 10-Minute Mindfulness. I will be explaining the reasons why I chose this book for my review. I will also be discussing my two topics of interest: practice a loving-kindness meditation and Developing a mindful parenting plan. I have included my corroboration for the information on my topics in this paper. Lastly I will be discussing my practice application about my topics.

Overview of Situational Problem: Poverty is an issue in the United States, and it leads to low socioeconomic status. According to article “Low-income working families: The growing economic gap,” “nearly one third of all working families may not have enough money to meet basic needs” (Roberts, Povich, & Mather, 2012-2013). That means there are many children living in poverty, and their basic needs such as shelter and food are not secured. These disadvantages affect these children negatively. The article “Tracing Differential Pathways of Risk: Associations Among Family Adversity, Cortisol, and Cognitive Functioning in Childhood” states that children live in low-income and stressful family environments are more likely to have adverse levels of cortisol, a steroid hormone, which relates to the brain damage (Suor, Sturge‐Apple, Davies, Cicchetti, & Manning, L. (2015). Also, the emotional distress is caused by losing financial support for the whole family. Children’s school performances and physical health will be affected because of stress and lack of funds to have nutritious meals. For parents,

Stress in children are situations that produce anxiety and require them to adapt or change. Family stressors such as divorce, domestic violence, and poverty have a tremendous affect on preschool children and are ultimately detrimental to their development. Although stress is normal for children to experience, preschoolers are not resilient towards stressors and are highly affected by them. The effects of stressors on children are not minimal either. Not only do family stressors affect children's’ behavior in the preschool classroom, but it influences their development and overall future. This makes it that much more important for parents and childcare providers to be aware and help/guide children.

Essential to the healthy physical and psychological development of children, is that their basic needs are consistently met. Research showed that in addition to physical needs, such as safety, food, shelter and access to medical care, children’s psychological wellness is determined on the nature of relationship with those primarily responsible for their care. Specifically, beginning at birth, the relationship must be characterized by security and uninterrupted

It is safe to say that many parents do not believe their children will experience a mental health illness. Most believes it is a lack of discipline for younger children. Unfortunately, many parents will compare their childhood, raising to their parenting. This is a different generation and violent times. Sometimes, parents will have needed to be reminded of the different factors affecting the generation of children. In most cases, the parenting style we grew up experiencing may not always be effective in parenting this generation of children. This information needs to be conveyed in a positive manner.

Beginning at a very early age, children are told they can change the world. Whether it be running for President of the United States, becoming a professional athlete, or taking a giant step for mankind in an astronaut suit, children believe they are invincible. For some kids, this belief holds true growing up, while those who struggle with behavioral and mental disorders are left feeling insignificant and unimportant. With a good-sized amount of the childhood population proving to have a social, behavioral, mental, or emotional disorder such as anxiety, schizophrenia, and depression, there is a need for trained professionals in school settings to help identify these problems early on in students and guide them on the