Skip to main content
  • Book
  • © 2019

Enhancing Resilience in Youth

Mindfulness-Based Interventions in Positive Environments

  • Presents essential theories and recent research on psychosocial mindfulness-based prevention programs
  • Describes individual, social, biological, and intercultural factors that affect program outcomes and feasibility
  • Adopts an intercultural perspective on interventions to reduce psychosocial problems among children and youths

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 79.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 99.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 139.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.

Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Enhancing Resilience in Youth: Sustainable Systemic Effects in Different Environments

      • Christoph Steinebach, Álvaro I. Langer, Tri Thi Minh Thuy
      Pages 3-17
    3. Looking for a Broad Framework for the Integration of Mindfulness-Based Interventions in the Educational System

      • Álvaro I. Langer, Christoph Steinebach, Carlos García-Rubio, Catherine I. Andreu, Leandro Torres-Díaz
      Pages 19-35
  3. Resilience in Youth: A General Framework of Understanding

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37
    2. Generosity, Peer-Support, and Positive Development in Youth

      • Christoph Steinebach, Marcel Schaer, Imke Knafla
      Pages 57-78
    3. Schools as Positive Environments

      • Sabine Pirchio, Ylenia Passiatore
      Pages 79-90
    4. Schools as Mindful, Supportive, and Healthy Workplaces at All Ages

      • Volker Schulte, Larisa Zotova
      Pages 91-103
  4. Further Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
    2. A Framework for Relational Mindfulness: Implications for Human Development

      • Roberto Arístegui, Claudio Araya-Véliz
      Pages 207-217
    3. Mental Health, New Technologies, and Wellbeing for Adolescents

      • Adolfo J. Cangas, María José Fínez, Consuelo Morán, Noelia Navarro, Petra Moldes
      Pages 233-243

About this book

This book shows how to plan, refine, and implement peer-supported mindfulness-based interventions to prevent mental disorders in children and youths. It focuses on interventions designed to maintain psychosocial health and prevent emotional and behavioral problems in children and youths around the globe. By combining a range of research perspectives, the book connects mindfulness to pro-social behavior, and to positive social and physical environments, in order to enhance resilience. In addition, it presents theoretical aspects and practical recommendations on how to promote mental health and healthy lifestyles in adolescents, such as school-based interventions. Gathering contributions by an international network of researchers and practitioners, the book offers not only state-of-the-art theoretical descriptions of key concepts and interventions, but also best practices for implementing them to strengthen resilience.


Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Applied Psychology, ZHAW Zürich University of Applied Sciences, Zürich, Switzerland

    Christoph Steinebach

  • Institute of Psychological Studies, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

    Álvaro I. Langer

About the editors

Prof. Christoph Steinebach had been working at a child guidance clinic for several years before he became head of an early education center. During these years, he worked with children and families on diagnostics, counseling, and supervision. In 1995, he became Professor of Special Education at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Freiburg (Germany), where he served as head of the Institute of Research and Development and as President of the University for many years. In 2007, he became a Professor at Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Dean of the School of Applied Psychology, and Director of the Institute of Applied Psychology in Switzerland and in 2013 adjunct professor at Ryerson University, Toronto (CA). Dr. Steinebach is member of various national and international associations. Currently, he is Vice-President of the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations (EFPA). As a developmental psychologist, his research interests focus on resilience, youth development, health promotion in young people, and counseling. He also serves on the editorial boards of different journals.

Prof. Álvaro I. Langer is a clinical psychologist and associate professor at Universidad Austral de Chile (UACh), Valdivia. He is Director of the Institute of Psychological Studies at the Faculty of Medicine of this house of studies, Deputy Director of the Excellence Research Center Millennium Nucleus to Improve the Mental Health of Adolescents and Youths (Imhay) as well as adjunct researcher at the Millennium Institute for Research on Depression and Personality (MIDAP), both funded by the Chilean Government. Moreover, he is a principal researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of the Nervous System (CISNe/UACh) and head of the Mind-Body lab at UACh. His research interests address the issues of prevention and promotion in mental health, interventions based on acceptance and mindfulness, and the study of social and cultural variables linked to thehealth process. Dr. Langer has several publications in the area of mental health, specifically, he has been a pioneer in the application of mindfulness in psychosis in Ibero-America and mindfulness in Chilean educational contexts.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Enhancing Resilience in Youth

  • Book Subtitle: Mindfulness-Based Interventions in Positive Environments

  • Editors: Christoph Steinebach, Álvaro I. Langer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25513-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25512-1Published: 06 September 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25515-2Published: 06 September 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25513-8Published: 28 August 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 277

  • Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Positive Psychology, Quality of Life Research, Educational Psychology

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 79.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 99.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 139.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access