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Lyons, Kristin E., and DeLange, Jennifer. 2016. “Mindfulness Matters in the Classroom: The Effects of Mindfulness Training on Brain Development and Behavior in Children and Adolescents” in Handbook of Mindfulness in Education: Integrating Theory and Research into Practice edited by Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl and Robert W. Roeser, 271-85, 1st edition. New York: Springer-Verlag

In this chapter, the authors delve into existing research on the effects of mindfulness training on brain development. They draw on the evidence that mindfulness training physically reshapes the brain, both by…

Lantieri, Linda; Nambiar, Madhavi; Harnett, Susanne; and Nagler Kyse, Eden. 2016. “Cultivating Inner Resilience in Educators and Students: The Inner Resilience Program” in Handbook of Mindfulness in Education: Integrating Theory and Research into Practice edited by Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl and Robert W. Roeser, 119-33, 1st edition. New York: Springer-Verlag

This chapter outlines The Inner Resilience Program (IRP), a program created in the wake of the terrorist attack on the 11. September 2001 in New York by a group of concerned educators and mental health practitioners.…

Young, Shinzen. 2016. “What is Mindfulness? A Contemplative Perspective” in Handbook of Mindfulness in Education: Integrating Theory and Research into Practice edited by Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl and Robert W. Roeser, 29-47, 1st edition. New York: Springer-Verlag

In this chapter, Shinzen Young fleshes out a historically contingent definition of mindfulness. It is apparent that mindfulness needs to be defined with respect to its two sides: the practical and the theoretical. The…