Mindfulness interventions within adult populations are becoming increasingly popular. Research suggests that mindfulness can deliver lasting improvements in self-awareness and emotional stability to adults with severe and chronic conditions. As yet, research within child and adolescent populations is in its initial stages, although mindfulness shows great clinical promise for young people. This article aims to provide an overview of mindfulness to professionals who are working in child or adolescent settings. Initially, it will provide the reader with some orientation to and definitions from the field, before summarizing the current evidence for the utility of the approach. The article recommends specific clinical modifications for mindfulness with children and adolescents, as well as reviewing how to monitor and enhance the development of this skill. Finally, it highlights important differences among mindfulness, relaxation and other meditative techniques.

Chronic pain poses significant challenges in the lives of many people. At the root of many of these challenges are the behavior patterns pain naturally coordinates. For example, in some cases, attempts to control, reduce, or cure pain through medication, medical procedures, or lifestyle changes can prove unsuccessful, and can dominate all other potential goals. The experience of chronic pain also includes other discouraging, painful, or unwanted psychological experiences, such as thoughts, feelings, and memories. Attempts to control or reduce some of these psychological experiences also can prove unsuccessful and even harmful, further reducing quality of life. This review highlights recent evidence for the utility of acceptance as an alternative when control-based methods are unsuccessful. It describes evidence from experimental, clinical, and treatment outcome studies. The review also notes how work in this area is drawing attention to the wider concept of "psychological flexibility," an overarching process that includes other component processes, such as mindfulness and values.

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Delphi research is an increasingly popular method within medical, social and psychological research. It tends to be employed where established theory or knowledge are lacking but where 'experts' are thought to hold relevant information. It consists of developing and administering sequential questionnaires that seek to move towards a position of relative consensus. Although the original authors of the technique established a specific method, the literature reveals modifications in the way this is applied. Variations include (i) restricting the ability of experts to respond to the original question, (ii) changing or varying the expert groups used and (iii) the point at which the research ends. This paper provides an overview of the technique and explains these variations and their implications before highlighting possible ways forward.

Pain hurts and is often viewed as harmful, and this leads to fear or anxiety, avoidance, or attempts to control the pain. Seeking to control pain is entirely natural and even seems necessary to reduce the undesirable effects of pain in one's life. Dependent on the situation, pain avoidance, sometimes also referred to as "fear avoidance," in studies of