How Can Mobile Phone Mindfulness-Based Counselling Be Systematically Applied and Evaluated for Stress Reduction among the Adolescents?

Mobile Mindfulness based counselling (mMBC) is a relatively new construct in counselling which has demonstrated an effective intervention to psychological problems. The construct may be viewed as a paradigm shift from traditional western approach emphases on cognitive restructuring and behaviour modification for intervention in health care practices. This paper looked at how mobile phone mindfulness-based can be systematically applied and evaluated for stress reduction among the adolescents. It did that by examining some existing literatures and empirical studies on the relationship between stress and mobile phone as well as the integration of mobile phone into mindfulness-based counselling and showcased how mobile phone platforms can be utilized to achieve mental health support. The paper made incursion into the concepts of stress, mobile phone use, mindfulness-based counselling, and the theoretical underpinnings of mobile Mindfulness-Based Counselling (mMBC). In conclusion, the study acknowledged that mobile phone is a source of stress to students who stay long on phones and argued that the mobile phone is also a potential tool to access and effectively deliver mindfulness-based counselling for stress reduction. It therefore recommended among others that the students should be guided to leverage their mobile phones to access Mindfulness-bas reduce stress.