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World Service,1 min

Teenagers to be schooled in 'mindfulness'

Newshour

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Thousands of teenagers across the UK will have school lessons in mindfulness in an experiment designed to see if it can protect against mental illness. Professor Willem Kuyken is Director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, one of the principal investigators in the scheme explains exactly what is mindfulness.

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