School-based mindfulness intervention supports adolescent resiliency: A randomized controlled pilot study

Felver, Joshua C.; Clawson, Adam; Morton, Melissa; Brier-Kennedy, Erica; Janack, Pamela; DiFlorio, Robert

doi:10.1080/21683603.2018.1461722

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“…16,29 A study by Kuperminc et al, 18 examined the impact of a year-long group mentoring program to promote resilience in 9th grade students at risk for school dropout and concluded that the students reported higher resiliency in 6 of 7 external facets of resiliency and 1 of 4 measures of internal resiliency. Another study by Felver et al, 17 evaluated the utility of a school-based mindfulness intervention to support high school-aged adolescents' resilience and reported that the mindfulness program may have a protective factor against feeling the effects of stressful times. Although different strategies to improve resilience were used, each of these studies aimed to improve relational (i.e., external) and personal (i.e., internal) facets of resilience using school-based interventions.…”

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“…12 Resilience is a mechanism that is often targeted in interventions to promote positive mental health outcomes in children. [16][17][18] Greenberg defined resilience as the protective or positive processes that reduce maladaptive outcomes under conditions of risk. 19 While there is variation in how resilience is defined and operationalized among researchers, the construct is often referred to as being multi-dimensional with internal (personal strengths) and external (relationships and environments) factors contributing to an individual's response to an adverse situation.…”

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Evaluation of a Resiliency Focused Health Coaching Intervention for Middle School Students: Building Resilience for Healthy Kids Program

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Introduction: Youth mental health issues are a growing public health concern. Resilience has been identified as a mitigating factor for adverse mental health outcomes. Schools have shown an increasing interest in strategies to support students’ mental health. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a school-based 1:1 health coaching program designed to build resilience by teaching students coping skills and strategies to increase their self-efficacy. Study Design: Single group intervention study with pre/post measures. Setting/Participants: Sixth grade students (aged 11-12 years) attending an urban middle school. Intervention: Youth participated in up to 6 resiliency-focused, 1:1 health coaching sessions completed over 8 weeks and conducted during the school day. Health coaches utilized motivational interviewing techniques to set and work toward resilience-related goals focused on improving coping skills and self-efficacy with youth during the intervention (January through March 2020). Main Outcome Measures: The Child and Youth Resilience Measure-Revised and other mental health assessments were completed at baseline and immediately following completion of the intervention to evaluate outcomes. Paired sample t-tests and Hedges’ g effect sizes were conducted to evaluate intervention effectiveness. Student participation rates were assessed throughout the intervention. Results: 287 youth participated in the study (87% participation rate) and participated in over 85% of health coaching sessions offered. A paired samples t-test revealed the youth resilience significantly increased from pre ( M = 75.7, SD = 6.9) to post ( M = 77.6, SD = 6.8) intervention ( t[257] = 3.73, p < .001) and the size of the effect was medium ( g = 0.29, 95% CI = 0.11, 0.46). Conclusions: The findings demonstrate that health coaching can be an effective strategy for improving resiliency in youth. Future studies evaluating how to effectively disseminate this intervention strategy are planned.

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Evaluation of a Resiliency Focused Health Coaching Intervention for Middle School Students: Building Resilience for Healthy Kids Program

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“…The newly added mindfulness program modules (e.g., focused attention, deep breathing, cultivating a kind attitude toward self and others, setting positive intentions) draw on youthspecific adaptations of mindfulness-based interventions (such as the 8-week curriculum of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, MBCT), but will be relatively brief compared to other formal mindfulness interventions, and will be designed to reflect age-related developmental needs and characteristics of youth 10-14 years old (e.g., with regard to attention span, cognitive capacities, language, physicality, relevant content, time involved in the intervention, and home practice in a situation with competing time demands). The selection of age-appropriate mindfulness modules for our targeted population builds on the current knowledge base of mindfulness training in non-clinical youth populations, which mainly derives from established school-based approaches [71], such as the "Learning to Breathe" manual [72,73] and other programs [74,75].…”

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“…The SFP-Mind facilitators will either be the program developers or facilitators trained by experienced personnel in teaching the novel mindfulness modules and require having personal experience with MT prior to starting the group trainings. This way, we aim for an adequate standard for MT delivery that is comparable to other mostly school-based MT approaches among universal youth populations [43,[71][72][73][74] and family-based approaches [65]. While we acknowledge the importance of mindfulness skills among trainers, our approach reflects externally valid conditions which might be found in real-world conditions, thus maximizing generalizability.…”

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Does a mindfulness-augmented version of the German Strengthening Families Program reduce substance use in adolescents? Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Arnaud

Baldus

Laurenz

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Background: Mindfulness training (MT) for parents of adolescents has been shown to improve mental health and stress-related outcomes in individuals and their families. Studies of MT among young people are mainly delivered in educational or clinical settings, and there is a need for controlled studies on both parent-directed and adolescentdirected approaches. It is unclear whether MT has preventive effects for substance use outcomes. The primary objective of this trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of family-based MT targeting both adolescents and their parents to prevent adolescent substance use and enhance neurobehavioral self-regulation skills that play a major role in addiction development and mental health. Methods/design: The trial design is a superiority, two-arm, randomized controlled trial in which families will participate either in the full curriculum of the evidence-based Strengthening Families Program 10-14 (SFP 10-14, German adaptation) or in a mindfulness-enhanced version of this program (SFP-Mind). Both seven-session interventions are highly structured and will each be delivered over a period of approximately 7 weeks. The experimental intervention SFP-Mind is a modified version of the SFP 10-14 in which some elements were eliminated or changed to enable the inclusion of additional parent-directed and adolescent-directed mindfulness components. The primary outcome is adolescent self-reported alcohol use based on an alcohol initiation index at 18-month follow-up. Dispositional mindfulness, impulsivity, and emotion regulation will be included as secondary outcomes and potential mechanisms of action. The study will recruit and randomize 216 adolescents, aged 10-14 years, and their parents who will be followed up for 18 months.

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“…Resilience, defined as the protective or positive processes that reduce maladaptive outcomes under conditions of risk [ 19 ], has been proposed as a mechanism that may mitigate the risk of youth experiencing negative mental health conditions when faced with adversity [ 19 , 20 ]. Interventions aimed at improving youth social-emotional learning and psychological and mental health status, including resilience, have been implemented to promote and support whole child health in line with the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) in schools [ 8 , [21] , [22] , [23] , [24] ]. Further, schools are logical settings for delivering youth wellness programming as they provide access to students for long periods of time and have existing resources and infrastructure [ 25 ] and the WSCC framework that many schools adopt includes values that support the positive development of youth mental health as part of the whole child.…”

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Study protocol for a school-based single group pragmatic trial to promote resilience in youth: Building Resilience for Healthy Kids

Lee¹,

Heberlein²,

Pyle³

et al. 2021

Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications

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Background There is a growing prevalence of mental health disorders among youth. Helping youth develop skills that promote and support mental well-being is an important strategy for addressing this public health concern. Building Resilience for Healthy Kids (Healthy Kids) is a school-based program designed to improve resiliency in youth aged 9–13 years old using an innovative health coaching framework. Methods Healthy Kids is a multi-phased intervention that aims to improve youth resilience using a 6-week, 1:1 health coaching program. The program develops youth resilience and was derived from models for developing youth resilience: Positive Relationships, Coping, Skill Development, Healthy Lifestyle, Sense of Culture, and Connectedness. Effectiveness of the intervention will be evaluated using a single-group, pragmatic trial design with pretest-posttest and follow-up assessments up to 12 months. Process measures will evaluate youth's acceptance and satisfaction of the program and attendance rates. Effectiveness will be evaluated by examining changes in resilience and mental health indicators from pre-to-post program and tracking sustainment of changes in mental health indicators over time. Discussion Given the pragmatic nature of the study design to work with generally healthy populations of students, we expect small, but sustainable, improvements in youth resilience to be achieved through the intervention. Further, this study will provide insight into the potential effectiveness of using health coaching as a strategy to support and promote youth mental well-being in school settings. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04202913. Registered December 18, 2019.

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School-based mindfulness intervention supports adolescent resiliency: A randomized controlled pilot study

Cited by 34 publications

References 40 publications

Evaluation of a Resiliency Focused Health Coaching Intervention for Middle School Students: Building Resilience for Healthy Kids Program

Evaluation of a Resiliency Focused Health Coaching Intervention for Middle School Students: Building Resilience for Healthy Kids Program

Does a mindfulness-augmented version of the German Strengthening Families Program reduce substance use in adolescents? Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Study protocol for a school-based single group pragmatic trial to promote resilience in youth: Building Resilience for Healthy Kids

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