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DEBATE : The inevitable decline of mindfulness
Author(s) -
Farias Miguel
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
child and adolescent mental health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1475-3588
pISSN - 1475-357X
DOI - 10.1111/camh.12600
Subject(s) - mindfulness , meditation , enthusiasm , mindfulness meditation , adverse effect , presentation (obstetrics) , psychotherapist , psychology , medicine , clinical psychology , social psychology , history , pharmacology , surgery , archaeology
The use of mindfulness meditation as a well‐being and clinical tool is being deeply challenged on various fronts. The recent failure of showing its salutary effects on schoolchildren, in a large‐scale study, which stands as the most expensive study in the history of meditation science (£6.4 million), is accompanied by growing evidence of potential adverse effects associated with mindfulness practice. It is suggested that the heightened enthusiasm surrounding the benefits of mindfulness led academics to use facile metaphors to promote it (such as comparing the mind to a muscle) and distorted its presentation – both in disseminating overhyped findings and in neglecting the report of adverse effects.