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| Mindfulness: A Necessary Intervention in Reducing Adolescent Mental Health Issues in Nigerian Schools
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Arimie, Awonemika Caroline and Azuonwu Goodluck
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Abstract:
Adolescent mental health challenges are major public health issue. As most adolescents leave with untreated mental health disorders which may result in a variety of negative consequences including depression, anxiety disorder and suicide. To address this need, there has been growing interest into broad-based integrated health promotion interventions that sought to build resilience and promote adolescents' mental health. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) represents as one such approach that have been administered to adolescents. This intervention is effectiveness in improving students' attention, awareness, alertness and reduce adolescent mental health issues. Compared to inefficiencies and high cost of traditional counseling interventions, MBIs are cost effective and efficient. The reviewer posits that since mindfulness is an evidence base intervention that increases students' ability to maintain focus, decreases stress and increase learning, adopting and implementing mindfulness in schools in Nigeria would be productive due to the effect it has on students' cognitive performance, stress and resilience.
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