Description: Since its publication nearly a decade ago, Learning to Breathe has transformed classrooms across the United States with its mindfulness-based stress reduction curriculum for adolescents, and the program has received praise from educators, parents, and mental health professionals alike. This fully revised and updated second edition offers the same powerful mindfulness interventions, and includes compelling new research and skills in the areas of trauma and compassion.
Brief description: Patricia C. Broderick, PhD, is a research associate at the Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development at Penn State University, and founder of the Stress Reduction Center at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. A graduate of the mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) advanced practicum at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Broderick is a licensed clinical psychologist as well as a certified school psychologist and counselor for grades K through 12. She is the author of The Life Span--a textbook for graduate-level students and mental health professionals--as well as Mindfulness in the Secondary Classroom.