Effective methods to support highly sensitive children and adults

Abstract

A significant number of studies have shown that highly sensitive individuals are predisposed to benefit more from psychological interventions. Additionally, a vast variety of individuals with high levels of sensory processing sensitivity tend to be easily stressed, apart from being disturbed in overstimulated environments. Therefore, some interventions have taken that into consideration, and was developed with the aim to teach those individuals how to deal with their emotional disturbances. Interventions have made use of mindfulness and yoga techniques, or even school-based antibullying programs so far. Be that as it may, not only have researchers investigated the impact of interventions on highly sensitive children, but they have also put their mind to examining how adults high in sensory processing sensitivity may benefit from psychological interventions. It is of the utmost importance to fathom how those individuals may take advantage of psychological interventions, to utilize the most valuable aspects for them. The present chapter aimed to analyze the results of different psychological interventions received by highly sensitive individuals. Another goal of this chapter was to examine which type of interventions in health and education contexts were more beneficial to them so as to provide different useful methods with which to support them.