A systematic review of mindfulness based interventions for children and young people with ADHD and their parents

Abstract

Recent intervention research with children and young people has reflected these positive results. The evidence is growing and it includes studies that have found improvements in attention, executive functioning (EF), emotional reactivity, meta-cognition and behavioural regulation (Flook et al., 2010;Saltzman & Goldin, 2008; Semple, 2010).These could be seen as promising results for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). At a neurobiological level, children with ADHD display impairments in the prefrontal cortex, which is the area of the brain that regulates the EF and attention (Purper-Ouakil et al., 2011) that is linked to poor performance in EF, including