Mental health at school: Meditation and morality, or counselling and clinical care?

Repackaging Buddhism as mindfulness has caught support for school counselling trailing in the slipstream. Meanwhile the government appears torn between promoting meditation or disorder diagnosis. Mental Health Today meets the man behind the mindfulness in schools movement, Richard Burnett.

 

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