A study has revealed that mindfulness training fails to prevent mental health issues in secondary schools. The review, which is the largest of its kind, also discovered that it has no impact on wellbeing, too.
The method – where individuals pay attention to the present and their immediate thoughts and feelings – is regarded as an effective technique for managing wellbeing and has been shown to work in adults. However, new research from UK schools found it was no better than what schools are already doing for mental health.
While mindfulness was found to improve the culture of a school these effects waned after a year. Mindfulness also left teachers less burnt out, but these effects also disappeared after a year.
