Brown University recently issued the following announcement.
In ‘The Mindful College Student,’ Eric Loucks, director of Brown’s Mindfulness Center, teaches essential mindfulness skills to help young adults flourish during this transition period and throughout their lifetime.
It’s a tough time to be a young adult, most young adults themselves say, as do those who teach and work with them.
Eric Loucks, an associate professor and director of the Mindfulness Center at Brown University, interacts with young adults while teaching as part of the Brown’s master of public health mindfulness concentration. He says that young people talk frequently about economic stress, career uncertainty, fraught relationships with social media, and loneliness, among other concerns.
But Loucks suggests that mindfulness may be an effective way to help to them (and people of all ages) contend with challenges and learn habits that can set them up for a lifetime of better health. In a new book, “The Mindful College Student: How to Succeed, Boost Well-Being, and Build the Life You Want at University & Beyond,” he provides information on mindfulness training supported by clinical research to help young adults develop skills to bolster well-being.
The book is based on Loucks’ Mindfulness-Based College program at Brown. Launched in 2015, the noncredit program grew out of a for-credit mindfulness course at Brown, and a study showed that its approach improved health outcomes among participating students. Loucks said he was encouraged to see that a tailored mindfulness program could help students decrease stress and symptoms of depression and increase sleep quality, physical activity levels and general wellness.
“One of the reasons I'm a professor is that I really enjoy working with young adults,” Loucks said. “But an in-person program that lasts for two and half hours a week for eight weeks isn’t available to that many people. The book is a way to make mindfulness training vastly more accessible to young adults — and basically serve as a way to support the next generation.”
“The Mindful College Student,” published by New Harbinger Publications, was published on April 1. Here, Loucks answered questions about the power of mindfulness.
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