Ms Catherine Mak

QCPRRC PhD student, and registered psychologist Catherine Mak submitted her PhD thesis entitled “MiYoga: A randomised, waitlist-controlled trial of an embodied mindfulness program based on hatha yoga principles for children with cerebral palsy and their parents”.  The MiYoga program Catherine developed has also been adapted into an application for both Andriod and IOS devices by the Cerebral Palsy Foundation in New York.  The app, Evovle21, offers fitness, meditation, and yoga (MiYoga) routines to people of all abilities and is due to launch on 1st August 2018.  The results of Catherine’s research were presented at the AusACPDM 2018 Conference in Auckland, New Zealand earlier this year.  Catherine has also been invited to present her PhD work at an International conference in Kolkata as part of the International faculty at the Indian Academy of Cerebral Palsy annual meeting in November.  

Conference papers     

Mak, C., Whittingham, K., Cunnington, R., & Boyd, R. N. (2016). MiYoga, an embodied movement program for children with cerebral palsy: experiences of children and parents.  Paper presented at the Australasian Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine Conference (AusACPDM); Adelaide, Australia;. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 58(3), 6-58. doi: 10.1111/dmcn.13069

Mak, C., Whittingham, K., Cunnington, R., & Boyd, R. N. (2017). Miyoga – a randomized controlled trial of a novel mindfulness yoga program to enhance attention for child-parent dyads with unilateral and bilateral cerebral palsy;  Paper presented at the The 71st Annual Meeting of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (AACPDM); Montreal, Quebec, Canada;. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 59, 20-21. doi:10.1111/dmcn.27_13511

Mak, C., Whittingham, K., Cunnington, R., & Boyd, R. N. (2017). MiYoga: a randomized controlled trial of an embodied mindfulness yoga program to enhance attention for child-parent dyads with unilateral and bilateral cerebral palsy. Paper presented at the 29th European Academy of Childhood Disability Conference (EACD); Amsterdam, Netherlands;. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 59, 4-45. doi:10.1111/dmcn.13455

Mak, C., Whittingham, K., Cunnington, R., & Boyd, R. N. (2018). MiYoga: Cognitive effects of a Mindfulness Yoga program targeting attention for children with cerebral palsy: a randomised controlled trial. Paper presented at the Australasian Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine Conference (AusACPDM); Auckland, New Zealand;. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 60(S1), 4-60. doi: 10.1111/dmcn.13665

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Mak, C., Whittingham, K., Cunnington, R., & Boyd, R. N. (2017). Efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions for attention and executive function in children and adolescents – a systematic review. Mindfulness, 9(1), 59-78. doi.org/10.1007/s12671-017-0770-6

Mak, C., Whittingham, K., Cunnington, R., & Boyd, R. N. (2017). MiYoga: a randomised controlled trial of a mindfulness movement programme based on hatha yoga principles for children with cerebral palsy: a study protocol. BMJ Open, 7(7), e015191.  doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-015191

Mak, C., Whittingham, K., Cunnington, R., & Boyd, R. N. (2018). Effect of mindfulness yoga programme MiYoga on attention, behavioural and physical outcomes in cerebral palsy: a randomized controlled trial. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology.  Published online. doi:10.1111/dmcn.13923