[Source: Medical Xpress]

Using compassionate mind training as a well-being intervention for school pupils could successfully support child mental health, according to new research by the University of Derby.

Researchers at the University have previously shown compassionate mind training (CMT)—an intervention that focuses on helping people be motivated to relieve their own, and others, suffering through different styles of thinking, feeling, and behaving—to be effective in supporting schoolteachers with their well-being.

Now, academics have applied the intervention in schools to see if it can be used to impact anxiety and depression in school children.

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