ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of mindfulness-based programs that have been used to teach mindfulness to parents, caregivers, and teachers that have produced cascading or spillover effects on children and adolescents. The importance of this literature is that it provides research-based evidence for mindfulness-based programs that can be used not only with children and adolescents with academic, social, and clinical problems but also as public health programs that may preempt or lessen the arising of such problems in children and adolescents generally. We present an overview of mindfulness-based programs from studies in which teaching mindfulness to parents, caregivers, and teachers changed the behavior of children and adolescents. In this chapter, the emphasis is less on the studies than on the programs used in these studies.
