ABSTRACT
Children are generally toddler stage and have been in placement for some time. The exception to this is the number of secondary school aged children in foster care, who might have had a series of moves and where professionals are looking for help in stabilising their situations. The team is a specialist service, the Fostering, Adoption and Kinship Care Team, for children, who are fostered, adopted, or living in kinship care and their families that are part of Child and Adolescent Mental Health at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. Offering mindfulness to children in group contexts has a number of advantages. Having trained in mindfulness based stress reduction and the Mindfulness in Schools programme and learnt of the increasing research evidence for their effectiveness as well as experiencing both the personal and professional value in practice of mindfulness, it seemed to the author a helpful idea to experiment with bringing this into the group.
