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Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take

Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program

Christopher Germer · 2019
82/100
👍 Worth It

Christopher Germer and Kristin Neff built the Mindful Self-Compassion program, so this is as authoritative as a facilitator guide gets — session-by-session scaffolding, real vignettes of group challenges, and downloadable meditations make it immediately deployable in clinical settings. The clinician community has embraced it as essential reading, and the evidence base for MSC itself is solid. This is a specialist professional tool, not a general-audience book, but within that specialist context it is as good as the field has.

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