UCLA Mindful App

Young adults and adolescents (15-25); can be used by any adult

For children/adolescents ages: 15 - 25

The UCLA Mindful App is a free app intended entirely as an educational tool designed to help relieve stress, teach mindfulness concepts, and promote resiliency and well-being-- including emotional regulation and the cultivation of positive emotions. It is available on the App Store or Google Play.

UCLA Mindful

• Website: www.uclahealth.org/uclamindful
• Email: uclamindful@mednet.ucla.edu

The goals of the UCLA Mindful App are:

• Learn mindfulness techniques to deal with stress
• Experience mindfulness meditation
• Learn meditation practices that cultivate positive states of mind
• Learn how to use meditations of many different lengths that can be utilized in daily life

The essential components of the UCLA Mindful App include:

• Basic Meditations for learning to mindfulness techniques in multiple languages
• Wellness Meditations for people suffering from challenging health conditions
• Informative videos exploring how to get started, supportive meditation postures, and the science of mindfulness
• Weekly podcasts from our live and virtual drop-in meditations -- a 30-minute meditation on different themes you can search for and bookmark
• New weekly meditations on different themes including developing calm, concentrating your mind, working with difficulties, cultivating kindness, and many more
• Talks on mindfulness-related topics
• A timer to meditate on your own
• Available in multiple languages

Child/Adolescent Services

UCLA Mindful App directly provides services to children and addresses the following:

• Depression, anxiety, attention deficit disorder, anger, self-hatred

Recommended Intensity

Varied. 5 minutes per day to get started

Recommended Duration

Ongoing

Delivery Settings

This program is typically conducted in a(n):

• Virtual (Online, Smartphone, Zoom, Telephone, Video, etc.)

Homework

This program does not include a homework component.

Languages

UCLA Mindful App has materials available in the following languages other than English:

• American Sign Language
• Armenian
• Cantonese
• Farsi
• French
• Hindi
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Mandarin
• Mixteco
• Russian
• Spanish
• Vietnamese

For information on which materials are available in this language, please check on the program's website or contact the program representative (contact information is listed in this page).

Resources Needed to Run Program

The typical resources for implementing the program are:

Access to a smartphone, tablet, or computer with internet service

Prerequisite/Minimum Provider Qualifications

Anyone can offer it by pressing play

Manual Information

There is not a manual that describes how to deliver this program.

Training Information

There is no training available for this program.

• There are currently no published, peer-reviewed research studies on outcomes with the appropriate target population for the topic area(s) in which UCLA Mindful App has been reviewed.

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