To celebrate the Child and Adolescent Mental Health journal’s 25th anniversary, we have released the 25 top cited articles of all time*! All papers are freely available online for you to read.
Number 8 of 25 is…
Review: Effectiveness of mindfulness in improving mental health symptoms of children and adolescents: a meta‐analysis
Kannan Kallapiran, Siew Koo, Richard Kirubakaran, Karen Hancock
First Published: 08 September 2015
Key Practitioner Message
- MBIs are a useful addition to the armamentarium for the treatment of children and adolescents
- The methodological rigor of the studies evaluating the impact of MBIs is improving
- Acceptance commitment therapy and MBSR appear to fulfill the criteria for empirically supported therapy in young people
- Further studies focusing on the process of change and mediators of positive outcomes are necessary
- Publication bias is an important limitation in this area of research
* as of December 2019
