Date
12-2019
Document Type
Capstone Project (Open Access)
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Department
Liberal Studies
Major
Liberal Studies
First Advisor
Paoze Thao
Abstract
The practice of mindfulness has been around for thousands of years, however; the practice has just become more common in the Western world, and especially in the classroom. The purpose of this paper is to discover how implementing mindfulness promotes mental health in elementary school students. In order to find out just how mindfulness promotes mental health in the elementary classroom, the research that was done involved an extensive literature review on the topic of mindfulness, surveys and interviews with local teachers in the Tri-County area, and also reached out to teachers to be interviewed more in depth. The results found that mindfulness does in fact promote elementary students’ mental health in a variety of ways, e.g. self-regulation, empathy, focus, calmness, and so on. Though there is more research to be done on this topic in the long term, this study along with many others show the potential benefits for elementary students now and potentially in the future.
Recommended Citation
Dunlap-DeMarco, Kathleen, "Implementing Mindfulness to Promote Mental Health in Elementary School Students" (2019). Capstone Projects and Master's Theses. 583.
https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/caps_thes_all/583
Included in
Educational Methods Commons, Elementary Education Commons, Liberal Studies Commons, Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education Commons