Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Ten Days to Great Self-esteem
David D. Burns · 2000
71/100
👍 Worth It
David Burns brings decades of clinical CBT chops to this day-by-day workbook, and the structure gives you something concrete to actually do instead of just think about. It's dense and worksheet-heavy, and the mood-tracking exercises can brush up against darker feelings, so it's a better fit for someone ready to do real work than someone just browsing for comfort.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Workbook exercises may touch on suicidal ideation in mood-tracking context; not graphic but worth flagging for sensitive or at-risk readers.. We still scored it 71; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety72
Substance / usefulness83
Craft & writing70
Originality55
Evidence & accuracy80
Hype vs delivers62
Age-fit78
Human-eye read65
Penny’s verdict71
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