MEDIA COVERAGE & BLOGS
My work has been discussed in the following online and print venues:
How Self-Compassion Can Improve Teen Mental Health
by Karen Bluth
June 15, 2023
Cultivating Self-Compassion in Teens
by Karen Bluth
January 17, 2023
How Self-Compassion Can Improve Teen Mental Health
by Karen Bluth
January 16, 2023
Studying the power of self-compassion intervention for transgender teens
by Karen Bluth
March 27, 2022
Teaching Teens to Love Themselves
by Karen Bluth and Megan Suggs
Parenting with Mindfulness
by Karen Bluth and Kurt Dusterberg
Four Tips for Parenting a Teen With ADHD
By Mark Bertin, Karen Bluth
OCTOBER 6, 2021
What I Learned about Self-Compassion—and Life—From My New Vacuum Cleaner
by Karen Bluth
September 14, 2021
self-compassion for introverts
Embracing your Introverted Self in an Extroverted World.
December 9, 2020
Now, More Than Ever, Teens Need Self-Compassion
By Karen Bluth, author of The Self-Compassionate Teen
October 14, 2020
EMERGENCY SELF-COMPASSION CLASSES HELP TEENS AMIDST PANDEMIC
by Karen Bluth
While self-isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic has been hard on everyone, it is particularly difficult for adolescents, who often lack the coping mechanisms for such situations. To help them address their anxiety and stress, Karen Bluth, a psychiatry professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is teaching four-week self-compassion classes: one for 11- to 14-year-olds and another for 15- to 19-year-olds. She’s doing this through the UNC Frank Porter Graham (FPG) Child Development Institute’s Program on Mindfulness & Self-Compassion for Families, which she developed last year.
For more information about Self-Compassion and upcoming classes, please visit selfcompassion.web.unc.edu.
Beyond clichés: Teen anxiety prompts closer look at young lives
By Chelsea Sheasley
March 7, 2019
Healing from Trauma with Self-Compassion
By Dr. Karen Bluth.
April 10, 2018
The promise of self-compassion for stressed out teens
New York Times article by Rachel Simmons.
February 20, 2018
How Can We Keep Teens From Killing Themselves?
New research shows how being more self-compassionate can help.
Article by Karen Bluth, Ph.D on Psychology Today.
April 15, 2018
How to Help Teens Become More Self-Compassionate
Self-compassion may be key to supporting teen mental health. Dr. Karen Bluth shares
lessons with Greater Good Magazine, from her mindful self-compassion program.
October 19, 2017
Five Tips for Teaching Mindfulness to At-Risk Teens
Dr. Karen Bluth shares the highs, lows, and lessons from teaching mindfulness at a low-income high school.
May 23, 2016
Can Self-Compassion Improve Well-Being in Teens?
Two new studies investigate self-compassion in adolescents, by Emily Campbell.
April 2, 2015
Study Finds Ethnically Diverse, At-Risk Adolescents Highly Receptive to Mindfulness Classes
The following is a Q&A with Karen Bluth, PhD, a mindfulness teacher, researcher, and one of the lead authors of a paper published this January in the journal Mindfulness, which examined the efficacy of Learning to BREATHE or L2B, a mindfulness curriculum for adolescents in an alternative school for ethnically diverse, at-risk teens.
February 5, 2015
The Impact of Mindfulness in the Lives of At-Risk Youth
National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine article on a study by Dr. Karen Bluth.
Benefits Of Self-Compassion: When Teens Are Hard on Themselves
Your Teen Magazine article by Nancy Schatz Alton.
What Can We Learn from Our Experience with the Thai Boys?
Our response opens the door to a new way to bring compassion into our lives. Psychology Today article by Dr. Karen Bluth
July 11, 2018
Self-Compassion Lessons:
Why teens, more than ever, need to learn to be kind to themselves
By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, Go Ask Mom editor.
July 12, 2018
Putting self-compassion into practice
UNC-Chapel Hill researcher Karen Bluth studies self-compassion and the role it plays in supporting mental health, particularly in teens. Here she offers a few tools for practicing self-compassion.
July 30, 2019
podcasts
SPEAKING OF TEENS
#35: The Incredible Power of Self-Compassion in Teens and Tweens
with Dr. Karen Bluth
oday in episode 35, I talk to Dr. Karen Bluth, a researcher at the University of North Carolina who studies self-compassion and how it influences adolescents’ emotional wellbeing. Listen in and learn how this simple yet powerful practice can potentially help your teenager flip the switch in their brain to become more positive, resilient and motivated and less stressed, anxious and depressed.
January 16, 2023
TarHeal Wellness: A Podcast for UNC Residents
In this episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Karen Bluth PhD. Dr. Bluth who holds a faculty position in the Department of Psychiatry at the UNC School of Medicine and is a Fellow at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute where she is founder of the Frank Porter Graham Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Program for Families.
September 23, 2022
Methods and frameworks of compassionate behavior
Dr. Karen Bluth joins host Ben Manis to discuss methods and frameworks of compassionate behavior to better address life's challenges.
April 4, 2022
Charting a Mindful Path with your ADHD Teen with Dr's. Karen Bluth and Mark Bertin
We're talking to the authors of Mindfulness and Self-Compassion for Teen ADHD, Drs. Karen Bluth and Mark Bertin, a book not written about teens and ADHD, but to them. It's one of the rare experiences that asks teens directly and personally to think about their ADHD, their relationship with others and their experience at school and work.
Teaching Adolescents Self-Compassion with Dr. Karen Bluth
In this episode, the accomplished Karen Bluth shares her research and insights into teaching adolescents the skills of self-compassion.
The Happiness Reset
This podcast- based on Tamara Lechner's book, The Happiness Reset- What to do when nothing makes you happy is designed to help take you from surviving to thriving using seven daily science-based strategies to ensure your efforts become predictable, simple, consistent and more effective.
September 2, 2020
Self-compassion and Teenagers
Anyone who has spent time around a teenager knows rebellion and self-discovery are part of the experience. In our current world, though, many teenagers struggle with anxiety, depression, or confusion as well. Researchers are starting to learn about approaches that can help people of all ages, including teens. In this episode, we talk with Karen Bluth of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to talk about her innovative, evidence-based work to develop mental health tools for teenagers and their families.
September 25, 2019
The Emotional Curriculum Podcast
SE02 E02 - Self - Compassion In Adolescents.
Dr Karen Bluth, Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina shares the model of self-compassion and discusses how this can be key to supporting the well-being of adolescents.
We discuss how a sense of humanity can be a key component in helping adolescents manage their own emotions and how we can help the young people we work with to develop their sense of self-compassion through mindfulness and self forgiveness.
The Power of Self-Compassion with Dr. Karen Bluth
On episode 19 of The Healthy Family Podcast Karen Bluth, Ph.D. explains the benefits of teaching self-compassion to adolescents. She is Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a certified instructor of Mindful Self-Compassion. Karen has been a mindfulness practitioner for almost 40 years and frequently gives talks, conducts workshops, and teaches classes in self-compassion in educational settings and in the community. She is co-creator of the curriculum Making Friends with Yourself: A Mindful Self-Compassion Program for Teens, and author of the book The Self-Compassion Workbook for Teens: Mindfulness and Compassion Skills to Overcome Self-Criticism and Embrace Who You Are.
May 10, 2018
The Full Bloom Podcast - Is self-compassion more important than self-esteem? with Karen Bluth, PhD
This week we’re talking with researcher and educator Dr. Karen Bluth about all things self-compassion: what it really means, and why it can benefit every member of the family. Dr. Bluth talks us through the research, challenges misconceptions, and argues that self-compassion is actually more valuable for our kids than self-esteem. We also learn how to help our kids cultivate their self-compassion, and get some good news — that it’s easier to embrace than you may think!
January 28, 2020
Creating Self-Compassionate Teens
Want motivated, mentally healthy kids? Researcher Dr. Karen Bluth tells us to replace the critic with self-compassion. Here's how.