PROFILE

Karen Bluth, Ph.D. is Associate Professor Emerita at the University of North Carolina, where she studied how mindful self-compassion improves mental health of teens and young adults. She is the author of five books for teens and caregivers, including The Self-Compassion Workbook for Teens and Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens in Schools. In addition, she is the 2022 recipient of the inaugural Mind and Life Foundation award for Public Communication of Contemplative Research and currently an adjunct professor as Assumption University.

As a mindfulness practitioner for over 45 years, a mindfulness teacher, and an educator with 18 years of classroom teaching experience, Dr. Bluth frequently gives talks, conducts workshops, and teaches classes in self-compassion in educational and community settings and trains teachers in Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens internationally.