Författare: Lorraine M. Hobbs

Lorraine Hobbs, MA, is Founding Director of the Youth, Family, and Education Programs at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Center for Mindfulness. As a family therapist, Ms. Hobbs has combined her clinical experience with her mindfulness and self-compassion expertise to coauthor curricula including Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens (MSC-T), an adaptation of the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program for adults. She is codeveloper of the MSC-T teacher training program and provides trainings internationally. Ms. Hobbs is a certified teacher of MSC, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction  (MBSR), and Compassion Cultivation Training, and is an MBSR mentor through the UCSD Mindfulness-Based Professional Training Institute. Niina Tamura, Ph D, is a psychologist specializing in child and adolescent psychotherapy, based in Heidelberg, Germany. She combines mindfulness- and compassion-based approaches with cognitive-behavioral therapy. Before turning to clinical practice, Dr. Tamura was a researcher in developmental psychology at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. She is a trained teacher of Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) and Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens (MSC-T).