ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a brief overview of the history of mindfulness and the potential benefits identified by research with adults, and identifies a definition of mindfulness and why it has been considered as a strategy that might be used to promote positive mental health in children. It reviews the results from mindfulness training with children that has taken place with different groups of children from a diverse range of cultural and socio-economic circumstances. Within the literature, The chapter considers specific issues that mindfulness training in children successfully addresses and where there is a need for greater research. It discusses the potential limitations of the research and where there is limited evidence for benefits of mindfulness for children. The potential benefits of mindfulness as a tool to improve behaviour through better emotional regulation and an increased sense of empathy has influenced specific elements of educational programmes unrelated to well-being.
