Interesting Reads

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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

  • The Connected Child by Karen Purvis
  • Beyond Consequences, Logic and Control by Heather T. Forbes
  • My Anxious Mind: A Teen’s Guide to Managing Anxiety and Panic by: Michael A. Tompkins, PhD, and Katherine A. Martinez, PsyD
  • Mindfulness for Teen Anxiety: A Workbook for Overcoming Anxiety at Home, at School, and Everywhere Else by Christopher Willard, PsyD
  • Outsmarting Worry: An Older Kid’s Guide to Managing Anxiety by Dawn Huebner and Kara McHale
  • Wilma Jean the Worry Machine by Julia Cook
  • The Anxiety Toolkit: Strategies for Managing Your Anxiety So You Can Get on with Your Life by Alice Boyes, PhD
  • The Little Book of Mindfulness by Patrizia Collard
  • Bipolar disorder: A Guide for Patients and Families, Third Edition by Francis Mark Mondimore, MD
  • The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide: What You and Your Family Need to Know by David J. Miklowitz, PhD
  • Major Depressive Disorder: A Patient and Family Guide by the American Psychiatric Association
  • The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT by Russ Harris
  • The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW

Personality Disorders

  • Overcoming borderline personality disorder: A family guide for healing and change by Valerie Porr
  • Brain lock: Free yourself from obsessive-compulsive behavior by Jeffrey Schwarts
  • The everything guide to narcissistic personality disorder: Professional, reassuring advice for coping with the disorder – at work, at home, and in your family by Cynthia Lechan Goodman and Barbara Leff
  • I hate you – Don’t leave me: Understanding the borderline personality by Jerold Kreisman and Hal Straus
  • The essential family guide to borderline personality disorder: New tools and techniques to stop walking on eggshells by Randi Kreger

Parenting

  • The whole-brain child: 12 revolutionary strategies to nurture your child’s developing mind By Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
  • Raising the kid you love with the ex you hate by Edward Farber
  • No-drama discipline by Daniel Siegel
  • Wise mind parenting by Laura Kastner
  • The Defiant Child: A Parent’s Guide to Oppositional Defiant Disorder by Douglas Riley, PhD
  • Overcoming Oppositional Defiant Disorder: A Two-Part Treatment Plan to Help Parents and Kids Work Together by Gina Atencio-MacLean, PsyD
  • Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD), ADHD and the Bipolar Child Under DSM-5: A Concise Guide for Parents and Professionals by Todd Finnerty, PsyD

Relationships

  • The dance of intimacy: A woman’s guide to courageous acts of change in key relationships by Harriet Lerner
  • Communication miracles for couples: Easy and effective tools to create more love and less conflict by Jonathan Robinson
  • 4 essential keys to effective communication in love, life, work – anywhere!: A how-to guide for practicing the empathic listening, speaking, and dialogue skills to achieve relationship success by Bento Leal, III
  • Surviving and thriving in stepfamily relationships by Patricia Papernow

Trauma, Grief, and Loss

  • The body keeps the score by Bessel van der Kolk
  • The gifts of imperfection by Brene Brown
  • From pain to power: Overcoming sexual trauma and reclaiming your true identity by Mary Ellen Mann
  • It’s ok that you’re not ok: Meeting grief and loss in a culture that doesn’t understand by Megan Devine
  • Under the influence: A journey of abuse, trauma, and grief through poetry by Jacquelyn Lee
  • The Unspeakable Mind: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Frontlines of PTSD Science by Shaili Jain, MD
  • Self-Compassion by Kristen Neff, PhD

Self-Harm & Suicidality

  • Cutting: Understanding and overcoming self-mutilation by Steven Levenkron

Life Transitions

  • Transitions: Making sense of life’s changes by William Bridges
  • The anatomy of change: A way to move through life’s transitions by Richard Strozzi-Heckler
  • Life’s transitions: Invitations to wholeness by Ben Johnson, Robby Carroll, and Kay Stewart

LGBTQ+ Concerns

  • The gender identity workbook for kids: A guide to exploring who you are by Kelly Storck and Noah Grigni
  • The ABC’s of LGBT+ by Ashley Mardell
  • You and your gender identity: A guide to discovery by Dara Hoffman-Fox
  • Black on both sides: A racial history of trans identity by C. Riley Snorton

Racial Identity & Race-Related Stress

  • Black lotus: A woman’s search for racial identity by Sil Lai Abrams
  • Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? And other conversations about race by Beverly Daniel Tatum

DBT

  • The Buddha and the borderline: My recovery from borderline personality disorder through dialectical behavior therapy by Kiera Van Gelder
  • Freedom from selfharm: Overcoming self-injury with skills from DBT and other treatments by Kim Gratz and Alexander Chapman
  • Don’t let your emotions run your life for teens: Dialectical behavior therapy for helping you manage mood swings, control angry outbursts, and get along with others by Sheri VanDijk

Autism

  • The reason I jump: The inner voice of a thirteen-year-old boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida
  • Nerdy, shy, and socially inappropriate: A user guide to an Asperger life by Cynthia Kim
  • The subtle spectrum: An honest account of Autistic discovery, relationships, and identity by Joanna Grace
  • The Asperkid’s (secret) book of social rules: The handbook of not-so-obvious social guidelines for tweens and teens with Asperger Syndrome by Jennifer Cook O’Toole
  • I think I might be autistic: A guide to Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis and self-discovery for adults by Cynthia Kim

ADHD

  • Smart but Stuck: Emotions in Teens and Adults with ADHD by Thomas E. Brown, PhD
  • Getting Ahead of ADHD: What Next-Generation Science Says about Treatments That Work – and How You Can Make Them Work for Your Child by Joel T. Nigg, PhD