Promoting mental health and building resilience in adolescence: Investigating mindfulness and attentional control. (360G-Wellcome-107496_Z_15_Z)

£4,366,023

Mental health problems most commonly start during adolescence. Major depression carries the largest potential burden in terms of years lived with disability and this proposal aims to determine how best to prevent it. It is based on the hypothesis that depression, and co-occurring behavioural problems, in part represent a failure to exercise top-down executive control, impairing the ability to recruit effective problem-solving skills in the face of emotional distress. Mindfulness training (MT) has been seen to be highly effective in adults. This Strategic Award addresses the question: Has mindfulness training (MT) in adolescence the potential to shift the secondary school-age population away from psychopathology and towards improved mental health by addressing key processes of mental regulation and executive control that operate across the spectrum of risk/resilience? Two of three interlinked research themes' examining mechanisms (Theme 1) and implementation (Theme 2) have been funde d. This invited resubmission addresses Theme 3, namely a large-scale cluster randomised controlled trial to investigate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of MT in schools.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 4366023
Applicant Surname Williams
Approval Committee Strategic Awards Committee
Award Date 2015-04-21T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2014/15
Grant Programme: Title Strategic Award - Science
Internal ID 107496/Z/15/Z
Lead Applicant Prof Mark Williams
Other Applicant(s) Dr Obioha Ukoumunne, Dr Sarah Byford, Prof Mark Greenberg, Prof Philip Zelazo, Prof Russell Viner, Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Prof Susan Gathercole, Prof Tamsin Ford, Prof Tim Dalgleish, Prof Willem Kuyken
Partnership Value 4366023
Planned Dates: End Date 2023-06-01T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2015-07-01T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region South East