Poor Shavuot! It’s hard to be a holiday that’s ignored or even forgotten. All the more famous Jewish holidays like Hanukkah and Passover try to cheer up Shavuot, but it’s no use—until the true meaning of Shavuot is revealed! Maybe there’s more to this holiday than milk and cheese…

This workbook should be used alongside A Clinician’s Guide to Compassion Focused Group Therapy for the Severely Mentally Ill to aid participants throughout their group journey in compassion focused therapy (CFT). CFT is a type of therapy aimed at understanding, alleviating, and preventing suffering in oneself and others.Divided into 12 modules, group members will move through the content with the support of their therapist. It is designed to be used during and between grou...

This manual provides clinicians with guidance to conduct compassion focused group therapy with patients suffering from severe forms of mental illness.Historically, those suffering from severe forms of mental illness face a myriad of biological, psychological, and social challenges, particularly shame and self-criticism. Compassion focused therapy is known to combat and address this suffering. This manual connects rich biological, psychological, and social theory with empirical find...