Trial of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for Children

Trial of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for Children
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Trial of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for Children
Various Studies have shown that children are more prone to mental instability, with the primary factor being stress and anxiety. The potential stresses may arise in a number of ways, such as school work, poverty and exploitation at home, and the result can be either be beneficial or negative. For instance, school work stress may make the student to work hard. On the other hand, home based stress may lead to school dropouts, drug abuse and suicide, among others. As such, there is a need to formulate various ways that might be helpful in controlling their emotions, which they sometimes find it unbearable. The paper provides an analysis of an article written in 2009 by Randye, Jennifer, Dinelia and Lisa; A Randomized Trial of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for Children (MBCT-C) and how it helps in enhancing children mindfulness, social and emotional resilience.
A Cross Sectional Research
A cross sectional analysis research was done for the identification of Mindfulness Based Cognition Therapy for Children effectiveness. The aim was to help children to mitigate stress. The therapy was formulated as it was shown to have a great influence on the children studies. The process was done since anxiety for instance, was shown to interrupt children attention, which escalates to children academic problems (Semple, Jennifer, & Dinelia, 2009).
Characteristics of the study participants
Children between the age of ten and thirteen were selected to be part of the qualitative research to provide an insight of the stress factors. All of them were English speaking children, who were enrolled in the University of Colombia clinical based remedial tutoring program. According to the institution clinical program psychologist, the children had significant difficulties in reading. Most of the children showed a great indication of stress and nervousness (Semple, Jennifer, & Dinelia, 2009).
Sampling Method
A descriptive research method was used in sampling the participants as the article does not explain the sampling method, or make accurate predictions as well as determining the cause of the problem. Thirty-nine participants were selected with no initial screening or criteria that could be used in selecting particular children based on exclusion criteria. The children selected were from the inner city areas, and who were having academic challenges (Semple, Jennifer, & Dinelia, 2009). Out of the 39 children, twenty-nine of them were selected to be part of the final case study. However, two of them withdrew due to scheduling conflicts, one fell out due to the parent concern of the program and the second child was as a result of age criterion (Semple, Jennifer, & Dinelia, 2009).As a result, ten boys and fifteen girls participated in the program and undertook all the three assessment procedure, which was part of the therapy process.
Hypothesis
After the assessment, the MBCT-C program showed an elevated improvement in the decrease of attention to the problem. At the beginning of the test, four out of five children who showed an elevated attention problem at pretest had...