Feds Spend $228,000 Teaching Teens to Make ‘Friends With Yourself’
Posted By Elizabeth Harrington On October 7, 2016 @ 1:47 pm In Issues | No Comments
The National Institutes of Health is telling depressed teenage girls to make “friends with yourself,” in a pilot study of a new Buddhist-inspired mindfulness program.
A project that began last month at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will use mindfulness training for teens that teaches “self-kindness” and “self-compassion.”
“Depression among adolescents is a major public health concern due to its prevalence, associated behavioral risks, treatment side-effects and limitations, and negative impact on individuals’ functioning over the lifespan,” according to the grant for the study. “Mindfulness and self-compassion programs have been shown to ameliorate depressive symptoms among adults. The goal of this study is to refine, manualize, and test the feasibility of a novel mindfulness self-compassion program as a depression-prevention program for adolescents with subsyndromal depression.”
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