Children
Worried No More: Help and Hope for Anxious Children
By: Aureen Pinto Wagner, Ph.D
For Parents, School and Healthcare Professionals, this book provides clear and practical strategies for dealing with a variety of anxiety problems including generalized anxiety, separation anxiety and school refusal.
What to Do When Your Child Has Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Strategies and Solutions
By: Aureen Pinto Wagner, Ph.D
Another practical book that has clear, easy to understand strategies for dealing with OCD.
The Worried Child: Recognizing Anxiety in Children and Helping Them Heal
By: Paul Foxman, Ph.D
Author Paul Foxman believes there are 3 ingredients that contribute to anxiety in children: biological sensitivity, personality, and stress overload. He provides strategies to raise a child’s self-confidence and improve social and self-control skills.
What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck: A Kid’s Guide To Overcoming OCD
By: Dawn Huebner, Ph.D
This workbook is specifically designed for children to use in therapy or with their parents. The author uses kid-friendly examples to help children understand OCD and specific tasks to help them manage the disorder. There are also workbooks that cover worry, negativity (grumbling), and temper problems.
Adolescents & Teens
By: John Duffy, Ph.D.
“If you are a parent―or have children in your life in any significant way and that you love―this book is required reading.” ―Michael Hainey, author of New York Times bestseller After Visiting Friends
Book Authority’s Best Parenting Book of All Time Awards
#1 Best Seller in School Age Children, Parenting Teenagers, Child Psychology, Adolescent Psychology, Anxieties & Phobias, and Hyperactivity
A parenting wake-up call that could change how you raise your child.
Learn about the “New Teen” and how to adjust your parenting skills. Strategies for parenting teens are now beginning years too late. Kids are growing up with nearly unlimited access to social media and the internet, and unprecedented academic, social, and familial stressors. Starting as early as eight years old, children are exposed to information, thought, and emotion they are unprepared to process.
Unprecedented teenage depression and anxiety. Because of the exposure they face, kids are emotionally overwhelmed at a young age and often are continuing to search for a sense of self well into their twenties.
Urgent advice for parents of teens. Dr. John Duffy’s parenting book is a necessary guide that addresses the hidden phenomenon of the changing teenage brain. Dr. Duffy, a nationally recognized expert in parenting for nearly twenty-five years, provides a guidebook for parents raising children who are growing up quickly and dealing with unresolved adolescent issues that can lead to anxiety and depression.
Inside you will:
- Realize the overwhelming circumstances of today’s teens and understand the changing landscape of adolescence
- Find a revised, conscious parenting plan that addresses the needs of the New Teen
- Discover the joy in parenting again by reclaiming the role of your teen’s ally, guide, and consultant
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Get ahead of your anticipatory anxiety, and start living with flexibility and peace of mind.
Do you automatically assume the worst-case-scenario when faced with difficulty? Do you stress about situations that haven’t happened yet, or find yourself anticipating disaster around every corner? Does the prospect of making a decision leave you feeling overwhelmed and paralyzed? From subtle avoidance behaviors to the most nightmarish terrors, anticipatory anxiety is the engine that drives it all. Understanding how this hidden enemy tricks you, and, most importantly, how to overcome it, will liberate you to live a more flexible and joyful life.
In Overcoming Anticipatory Anxiety, two anxiety experts team up to teach you how to manage your overactive imagination, limit future-based thinking, face your fears, make decisions, and live with more freedom and joy. This must-have guide is grounded in the authors’ innovative and easy-to-remember DANCE model:
- Discern your anticipatory anxiety
- Accept doubts and discomfort
- No struggling or avoiding
- Commit to proceed
- Embrace the present as it is, so you can get on with your life
Your relationship with your worries and imagination will shift, so that you can focus on what is genuinely important.
It’s time to stop worrying about what might happen, start facing your fears, rein in your self-defeating imagination, and live fully in the moment. Get this book and discover the motivation and skills needed to take charge of your anticipatory anxiety.
Anxiety Relief for Teens: Essential CBT Skills and Mindfulness Practices to Overcome Anxiety and Stress
By: Regine Galanti, Ph.D.
Workbook focused on anxiety relief through utilization of mindfulness skills, learning triggers and warning signs as well as other coping skills to decrease anxiety.
Adults
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook, Fifth edition.
By: Edmund J. Bourne, Ph.D
The Fifth edition of this book has the latest anxiety research and information about current medications. It also includes new therapeutic techniques to treat anxiety.
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
By: David Burns, M.D.
Eminent psychiatrist, Dr. David Burns, outlines scientifically proven techniques to help develop a positive outlook on life and deal with symptoms of Depression and Anxiety. The book also includes an all new “Consumer’s Guide to Anti-Depressant Drugs.”
The Feeling Good Handbook
By: David Burns, M.D.
This is the sequel to “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy” and discusses techniques and exercises to help overcome depression and anxiety.
10 Best Ever Depression Management Techniques
By: Margaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D
Addressing physical, emotional and behavioral symptoms, Dr. Wehrenberg draws on basic brain science to highlight the top 10 depression defeating tips. She also has a book “10 Best Ever Anxiety Management Techniques.”
Children
Taking Charge of ADHD: The Complete and Authoritative Guide for Parents (Revised Edition)
By: Russell Barkley, Ph.D., ABPP, ABCN
From internationally renowned ADHD expert Russell Barkley, this book provides step-by-step behavior management techniques for children, current information on medications and strategies that help children succeed at school and in social situations.
The ADHD Workbook for Kids: Helping Children gain Self-Confidence, Social Skills and Self-Control
By: Lawrence Shapiro
This workbook includes more than forty activities for kids developed by Child Psychologist Lawrence Shapiro. These activities can help your child with ADHD handle everyday tasks, make friends, and build self-esteem.
By: Kelli Miller, M.S.W., LCSW
Help your child understand and manage their ADHD with an engaging workbook full of activities for kids ages 7 to 12.
By: Debra Burdick, M.S.W., LCSW
Mindfulness for Kids with ADHD offers fun and accessible mindfulness exercises designed to help kids with ADHD successfully navigate all the areas of life, from making friends and doing well in school to establishing healthy habits and limiting screen time.
Mindful Parenting for ADHD: A Guide to Cultivating Calm, Reducing Stress, and Helping Children Thrive
By: Mark Bertin MD
In this book, a developmental pediatrician presents a proven-effective program for helping both you and your child with ADHD stay cool and collected while remaining flexible, resilient, and mindful.
Adolescents & Teens
Teenagers with ADHD-A parent’s guide
By: Chris Zeigler Dendy
This book discusses the characteristics of ADHD in teenagers and methods for overcoming these difficulties. Throughout the book are the voices of teens, parents, teachers and professionals who describe the peaks and valleys of life with ADHD and provides insight and support.
Adults
Taking Charge of Adult ADHD
By: Russell Barkley Ph.D., ABPP, ABCN
Dr. Barkley, a leading researcher in ADHD, provides step-by-step strategies for managing symptoms and reducing their harmful impact. Specific techniques are presented for overcoming challenges with work, relationships, and finances.
The ADHD Effect on Marriage: Understand and Rebuild Your Relationship in Six Steps
By: Melissa Orlov
This book was awarded “Best Psychology Book of 2010,” by Foreword Reviews. The author discusses specific problems in marriage when one spouse has ADHD such as: nagging, intimacy problems, sudden anger, and memory issues.
By: Tamara Rosier, Ph.D.
If you have ADHD, your brain doesn’t work in the same way as a “normal” or neurotypical brain does because it’s wired differently. This difference in circuitry is not somehow wrong, incomplete, or shameful. However, it does present you with significant challenges like time management, organization skills, forgetfulness, trouble completing tasks, mood swings, and relationship problems.
By: Sari Solden, M.S. & Michelle Frank, Psy.D.
Live boldly as a woman with ADHD! This radical guide will show you how to cultivate your individual strengths, honor your neurodiversity, and learn to communicate with confidence and clarity.
If you are a woman with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you’ve probably known—all your life—that you’re different. As girls, we learn which behaviors, thinking, learning, and working styles are preferred, which are accepted and tolerated, and which are frowned upon. These preferences are communicated in innumerable ways—from media and books to our first-grade classroom to conversations with our classmates and parents.
By: Melissa Orlov &
More and more often, adults are realizing that the reason they are struggling so much in their relationship is that they are impacted by previously undiagnosed adult ADHD. Learning how to interact around ADHD symptoms is often the difference between joy together and chronic anger and frustration. So The Couple’s Guide to Thriving with ADHD lays out the most important strategies couples can use – right now – to rebuild trust, fight less, disagree more productively, get the attention they deserve, and rebuild intimacy in their relationship. These are strategies honed over years of working specifically with couples impacted by ADHD, and demonstrated to change lives for the better. ‘Thrive’ is the go-to book for couples struggling with ADHD who want to actively work to improve their relationship
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A revolutionary new approach to ADD/ADHD featuring cutting-edge research and strategies to help readers thrive, by the bestselling authors of the seminal books Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction
“An inspired road map for living with a distractible brain . . . If you or your child suffer from ADHD, this book should be on your shelf. It will give you courage and hope.”—Michael Thompson, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling co-author of Raising Cain
World-renowned authors Dr. Edward M. Hallowell and Dr. John J. Ratey literally “wrote the book” on ADD/ADHD more than two decades ago. Their bestseller, Driven to Distraction, largely introduced this diagnosis to the public and sold more than a million copies along the way.
By: Thomas E Brown Ph.D.
Outside the Box: Rethinking ADD/ADHD in Children and Adults A Practical Guide assails decades-old assumptions and presents an up-to-date, science-based understanding of this disorder that causes significant impairment and considerable suffering for about 8% to 10% of children and at least 5% of adults.
Designed for the layperson, as well as for clinicians, the book offers science-based answers in plain, understandable language to questions such as the following: Why are those with ADD/ADHD able to focus very well on a few tasks in which they have strong interest but are unable to focus adequately on many other tasks they recognize as important? How is ADHD like having erectile dysfunction of the mind? Is medication treatment for ADHD more or less risky than its not being treated with medicine?
Both down-to-earth and cutting-edge, Outside the Box: Rethinking ADD/ADHD in Children and Adults A Practical Guide highlights multiple perspectives on how this disorder affects children and adults who suffer from it, as well as those who love and care for them.
Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook by Kreger and Shirley
By: Paul T. Mason, M.S. and Randi Kreger
A book for family members who live with or have relationships with those diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder.
A Little Spot of Emotion (Series)
By: Diane Alber
Emotions are complex and difficult to explain – even for grown-ups! This box set is educators and parents’ perfect helping hand in explaining basic emotions. The Little SPOT of Emotion Box Set teaches about happiness, sadness, anger, anxiety, love, confidence, peacefulness and a mix of it all through a little scribble! (Ages 3-7)
By: Dawn Huebner
This book guides children and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques used to treat problems with anger. Engaging examples, lively illustrations, and step-by-step instructions teach children a set of “anger dowsing” methods aimed at cooling angry thoughts and controlling angry actions, resulting in calmer, more effective kids.
By: Dawn Huebner
Lively metaphors and humorous illustrations make the concepts and strategies easy to understand, while clear how-to steps and prompts to draw and write help children to master new skills related to reducing anxiety. This interactive self-help book is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering kids to overcoming their overgrown worries.
By: Tamar D. Black, Ph.D.
The ACT Workbook for Kids helps children manage emotions like worry, sadness, and anger using fun, evidence-based activities based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). These activities teach kids practical skills to balance their emotions at home, school, and in social situations, making it easier for them to handle stress and improve self-esteem.
By: Deborah Reber
A how-to, a manifesto, and a wise and reassuring companion for parents of neuroatypical children, who often feel that they have no place to turn. How to stay open, pay attention, and become an exceptional parent to your exceptional child.
Flooded: A Brain-Based Guide to Help Children Regulate Emotions
By: Allison Edwards
In this book, you’ll get an overview of how the brain interacts with emotions, an understanding of the role of trauma in emotional health, and an explanation of why children can’t respond rationally in stressful circumstances. You will learn techniques for teaching children how to regulate emotions.
By: Afton Hassett Psy.D.
This guide shows how your brain processes pain and how simple actions can improve chronic pain. Chronic Pain Reset helps you evaluate your pain and offers enjoyable, daily strategies.
Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
By: Melody Beattie
Explores codependency through activities, exercises and personal reflections as ways to address setting boundaries and gaining insight to healthy relationships.
How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
By: Dr. Nicole LePera
In How to Do the Work, she offers both a manifesto for SelfHealing as well as an essential guide to creating a more vibrant, authentic, and joyful life. Drawing on the latest research from a diversity of scientific fields and healing modalities, Dr. LePera helps us recognize how adverse experiences and trauma in childhood live with us, resulting in whole body dysfunction—activating harmful stress responses that keep us stuck engaging in patterns of codependency, emotional immaturity, and trauma bonds. Unless addressed, these self-sabotaging behaviors can quickly become cyclical, leaving people feeling unhappy, unfulfilled, and unwell.
Feeling Better: CBT Workbook for Teens
By: Rachel Hutt, Ph.D
Workbook that guides teens through learning and exploring their anxiety/depressive symptoms while learning skills to manage these experiences.
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
By: John Gottman, Ph.D
Psychologist John Gottman has spent over 20 years studying what makes a marriage last. He discusses each principle in depth with case examples from his research. He also includes self-assessment exercises and strategies to help strengthen your marriage.
Why Marriages Succeed or Fail . . . and How You Can Make Yours Last.
By: John Gottman, Ph.D
This book guides you through a series of self-tests designed to determine what kind of marriage you have, your strengths and weaknesses and specific actions to take to help your marriage.
10 Lessons to Transform Your Marriage
By: John Gottman, Ph.D
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Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
By: John Gottman
Explores 8 different types of dates to improve connection and communication between couples. This can be utilized for new couples as well as established couples to reinforce love maps and turning towards each other.
The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need To Know To Make Love Work.
By: Terrence Real
Terrence Real shows women how to master the new rules of the 21st century by offering them effective tools to help them create the truly intimate relationship they desire. He identifies 5 non-starters to avoid and shares practical strategies for bringing honesty, passion, and joy back to even the most difficult relationship.
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
By: Sue Johnson, Ph.D.
This book details Johnson’s approach for understanding and resolving couples’ problems. Johnson focuses on how couples get stuck in negative patterns of interaction, and how they can extricate themselves from these cycles. Johnson relies on Attachment Theory to help understand why couples become stuck in dysfunctional and problematic patterns that damage their relationships.
By: Eve Rodsky
A time- and anxiety-saving system that offers couples a completely new way to divvy up domestic responsibilities.This game means rebalancing your home life, reigniting your relationship with your significant other, and reclaiming the time to develop the skills and passions that keep you interested and interesting. Stop drowning in to-dos and lose some of that invisible workload that’s pulling you down.
Overcoming Binge Eating: The Proven Program to Learn Why You Binge and How You Can Stop
By: Christopher G. Fairburn
Explores ways to understand the urges to binge eating, gaining control over when and what to eat, breaking free of habits that contribute to binge eating and improving body image to maintain healthy habits.
The Body Image Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help Girls Develop a Healthy Body Image in an Image-Obsessed World
By: Julia V. Taylor Ph.D.
In The Body Image Workbook for Teens, you’ll find practical exercises and tips that address the most common factors that can lead to negative body image, including: comparison, negative self-talk, unrealistic media images, societal and family pressures, perfectionism, toxic friendships, and a fear of disappointing others. You’ll also learn powerful coping strategies to deal with the daily, intense pressures of being a teenage girl.
By: J. Eric Oliver
In reviewing the scientific evidence, Oliver shows there is little proof that obesity causes so much disease and death or that losing weight is what makes people healthier. Our concern with obesity, he writes, is fueled more by social prejudice, bureaucratic politics, and industry profit than by scientific fact. Misinformation pushes millions of Americans towards dangerous surgeries, crash diets, and harmful diet drugs, while we ignore other, more real health problems. Oliver goes on to examine why it is that Americans despise fatness and explores why, despite this revulsion, we continue to gain weight.
By: Lindsay C. Gibson
Learning about childhood relationships with parents who may have been emotionally immature and how to heal from these experiences.
Done with Crying
By: Sheri McGregor
Exploring estrangement from a mothers perspective. It explores reconciliation along with ways to move past estrangement and taking back control of your life.
When Parents Hurt
By: Joshua Coleman
Explores estrangement and grief towards the loss of a relationship with a child. Focuses on recognition of what control a parent has towards a relationship that could lead to reconciliation or healing within the estrangement.
Late, Lost, and Unprepared: A Parent’s Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning
By: Joyce Cooper-Kahn, Laurie Dietzel
Learn easy-to-follow steps to identify your child’s strengths and weaknesses in getting organized, staying focused, and controlling impulses and emotion by using activities and techniques proven to boost specific skills, and problem-solve daily routines
By: Peg Dawson Ed.D., Richard Guare Ph.D.
The latest research in child development shows that many kids who have the brain and heart to succeed lack or lag behind in crucial “executive skills”–the fundamental habits of mind required for getting organized, staying focused, and controlling impulses and emotions. Learn easy-to-follow steps to identify your child’s strengths and weaknesses, use activities and techniques proven to boost specific skills, and problem-solve daily routines. Small changes can add up to big improvements–this empowering book shows how.
Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce-The Sandcastles Way
By: M. Gary Neuman
Based on Gary Neuman’s successful Sandcastles program, this book addresses many of the issues facing families going through a divorce. The book describes, by age group, how to tell your child about the divorce, how to help them express their feelings, and when your child needs a therapist.
Raising a thinking Preteen
By: Myrna B. Shure, Ph.D
In her best-selling “Raising a Thinking Child”, Myrna Shure introduced her nationally acclaimed “I can problem-solve” program. This book teaches children between 8 and 12 years old how to think through problems and make decisions on their own.
Helping Your Socially Vulnerable Child: What to Do When Your Child is Shy, Socially Anxious, Withdrawn, or Bullied.
By: Andrew B. Eisen and Linda B. Engler
This book provides coping tools and social skill strategies that you can tailor to your child’s unique social and emotional needs.
1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12.
By: Thomas Phelan, Ph.D.,
The revised edition of this award winning book addresses the difficult task of child discipline with humor, keen insight, and proven experience.
When Parents Disagree and What You Can Do About It: How to Raise Great Kids While You Strengthen Your Marriage
By: Dr. Ron Taffel
This book provides a down to earth discussion of the challenges of parenting, and focuses on the challenging issue of parental disagreements, and how to manage them. We particularly like this books emphasis on the importance of parents working together.
Parenting by Heart: How to stay connected to your child in a disconnected world
By: Dr. Ron Taffel
We like this book because it emphasizes the importance of parents staying connected with their children and teens. It also offers thoughtful and practical recommendations to parents.
The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
By: Ross Greene, PhD
This book details Greene’s innovative approach to working with children (and teens) who are extremely defiant and prone to explosive outbursts. Greene conceptualizes these children’s difficulties as reflecting weakness in skills and focuses on how to best help these children by working to strengthen their skills and by modifying the expectations that parents and others often place on them.
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A workbook that explores gender and sexual identity by utilizing an understanding of labels, interests, and self reflection.
Motherless Daughters
By: Hope Edelman
Book on the grief and loss of losing a mother to provide comfort and help to women of all ages who have survived losing their mothers.
Practicing Mindfulness:
By: Matthew Sockolov
Book of 75 mindfulness skills that range from 5 mins to 45 min activities to decrease anxiety and depression and improve the ability to be present in the moment.
By: Marisa T. Mazza, Psy.D.
Stand up to your OCD! The ACT Workbook for OCD combines evidence-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) with exposure and response prevention (ERP) for the most up-to-date, effective treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
If you’re one of millions of people who suffer from OCD, you may experience obsessive, intrusive, or even disturbing thoughts. You may engage in compulsive or ritualistic behaviors, such as checking to make sure you’ve locked the front door, or endlessly washing your hands for fear of germs or contamination. And you may be tempted to give up if treatment just doesn’t work for you.
Whether you’ve just received a diagnosis, or have suffered for years, this workbook can help. Using the powerful and proven-effective treatments in this guide, you’ll learn what type of OCD you suffer from (such as harm OCD), how to identify the underlying mechanisms of your OCD, move through triggering incidents while staying present and connected to your values, be more aware and flexible, tolerate uncertainty, and commit to behaviors that ultimately allow you to lead a full, rewarding life. Once you realize what really matters to you, you’ll find the motivation needed to start on the path to psychological well-being.
If you’re ready to be courageous, take a risk, and stand up to your OCD symptoms, this workbook can help guide you, every step of the way.
By: Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT
A compassionate guide to help you manage OCD symptoms, overcome feelings of shame and stigma, and revitalize your life!
If you’re one of millions who suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), you’re all-too-familiar with feelings of anxiety, panic, shame, and uncertainty. In addition, the stigma associated with OCD can make you feel unworthy of receiving the compassion and kindness you need and deserve. You may even experience unwanted intrusive thoughts that result in harsh self-judgment—which can actually hinder your recovery and lead to additional mental health problems. So, how can you break this destructive cycle and start feeling better?
The Self-Compassion Workbook for OCD outlines a step-by-step program to help you understand the emotional experience of OCD, and develop the tools you need to manage your disorder and build a better life. Drawing on a powerful combination of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), exposure and response prevention (ERP), and compassion-focused therapy (CFT), this breakthrough guide will teach you how to balance intense emotions, lean into your fear, and focus on recovery. Over time, you’ll learn to replace self-judgment with kindness and self-compassion, so you can stop suffering and start thriving.
Living with OCD can be extremely challenging, but it doesn’t have to rob you of your self-worth. You are so much more than your disorder! Let this book be your guide to discovering, supporting, and loving the best you that you can be.
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You are not your thoughts! In this powerful book, two anxiety experts offer proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills to help you get unstuck from disturbing thoughts, overcome the shame these thoughts can bring, and reduce your anxiety.
If you suffer from unwanted, intrusive, frightening, or even disturbing thoughts, you might worry about what these thoughts mean about you. Thoughts can seem like messages—are they trying to tell you something? But the truth is that they are just thoughts, and don’t necessarily mean anything. Sane and good people have them. If you are someone who is plagued by thoughts you don’t want—thoughts that scare you, or thoughts you can’t tell anyone about—this book may change your life.
In this compassionate guide, you’ll discover the different kinds of disturbing thoughts, myths that surround your thoughts, and how your brain has a tendency to get “stuck” in a cycle of unwanted rumination. You’ll also learn why common techniques to get rid of these thoughts can backfire. And finally, you’ll learn powerful cognitive behavioral skills to help you cope with and move beyond your thoughts, so you can focus on living the life you want. Your thoughts will still occur, but you will be better able to cope with them—without dread, guilt, or shame.
If you have unwanted thoughts, you should remember that you aren’t alone. In fact, there are millions of people just like you—good people who have awful thoughts, gentle people with violent thoughts, and sane people with “crazy” thoughts. This book will show you how to move past your thoughts so you can reclaim your life!
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Powerful skills based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you break free from the fear of uncertainty and put a stop to compulsive checking and reassurance seeking.
“How do I know I made the right decision?” “What if I’m wrong?” “I need to know for sure.”
Do you have thoughts like these—thoughts that cause you to second-guess yourself, and lead to anxiety, stress, and worry? Do you find yourself repeatedly checking your email for no reason, asking others for their opinions about something again and again, or lying awake at night overanalyzing and planning ahead in an attempt to feel less anxious? If so, you probably have a problem with compulsive reassurance seeking. The good news is that you can break free from this “reassurance trap”—this book will show you how.
In this unique guide, you’ll find proven-effective tips and tools using CBT to help you tolerate uncertainty, face specific worrying scenarios, and gradually reduce the compulsion to incessantly seek reassurance. Most importantly, you’ll learn to deal with those pesky “doubt attacks” and trust your own judgment.
Asking for reassurance is a self-reinforcing behavior—if you do it, you’re less likely to handle stressful situations without needing further reassurance. And so the cycle continues. The CBT skills in this book will help you break this exhausting and painful pattern, so you can build self-confidence and improve your life.
By: Chad LeJeune Ph.D.
Let go of the struggle and obsess less. With this unique guide, you’ll find the tools you need to get unstuck from obsessive thoughts, overcome fears, feel more grounded, and live a life that truly reflects your values.
Pure obsessional obsessive-compulsive disorder, or “Pure O” OCD, is a subtype of OCD that is characterized by intrusive thoughts, images, or urges without any visible compulsive symptoms. Instead, obsessive worry, regret, or uncertainty is accompanied by “hidden” compulsions like reassurance seeking, avoidance, or complex thought rituals. This can lead to decisions based on fears and compulsions rather than grounded in your values. The efforts to stop or change obsessive thoughts only leads to more anxiety and fear. So, how do you break this obsessive cycle?
Grounded in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and written by a renowned ACT and anxiety expert, “Pure O” OCD explains the process of “cognitive fusion” that leads to obsessive thinking, and how efforts to avoid or control our thoughts reinforce the fusion in an unhelpful, positive feedback loop. Using the five skills in the book—labeling, letting go, acceptance, mindfulness, and proceeding with purpose—you’ll learn how to finally break free of the struggle, worrying, and avoidance that keeps you stuck.
With practice, you’ll find that you can change your relationship to anxiety and obsessive thoughts, responding with your own values-based choices, proceeding purposefully toward a life that reflects what matters most to you.
The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
By: Ross W. Greene
Dr. Ross Greene is a distinguished researcher and clinician in the treatment of kids with extreme emotional and behavioral problems. In his book, he discusses how these children are not attention-seeking or manipulative, but instead are lacking some crucial skills in the areas of flexibility/adaptability, frustration tolerance and problem-solving and, therefore, require a different approach to parenting.
The Challenging Child
By: Stanley Greenspan, M.D.
Child Psychiatrist, Dr. Stanley Greenspan, describes ways to understand, raise and enjoy the five “difficult,” types of children: the Highly Sensitive Child; the Self-Absorbed Child; the Defiant Child; the Inattentive Child and the Active/Aggressive Child.
Setting Limits with your Strong-Willed Child: Eliminating Conflict by Establishing Clear, Firm, and Respectful Boundaries.
By: Robert MacKenzie, Ed.D
For the family with a high level of parent-child conflict, this book will help you understand and empathize without giving in, hold your ground without threatening, remove deadly power struggles and give clear, firm messages that your child respects.
Your Defiant Child: Eight Steps to Better Behavior
By: Russell Barkley and Christine Benton
This book clearly explains what causes defiance, when it becomes a problem and how it can be resolved. The 8-step program stresses consistency and cooperation, promoting changes through a system of praise, rewards and mild punishment.
Try and Make Me: Simple Strategies That Turn Off the Tantrums and Create Cooperation
By: Roy Levy, Bill O’Hanlon and Tyler Norris Goode
The authors are family therapists who provide clear and easy to understand advice on how to deal with your child’s tantrums.
The Defiant Child: A Parent’s Guide to Oppositional Defiant Disorder
By: Dr. Douglas A. Riley
In this book, Dr. Riley, a Child and Adolescent Psychologist, teaches parents how to recognize the signs, understand the attitudes, and modify the behavior of their oppositional child.
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
By: Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.
In The Highly Sensitive Person, you’ll discover self-assessment tests to pinpoint your sensitivities and strategies for reframing past experiences to enhance self-esteem. The book offers insights into how high sensitivity affects both work and personal relationships, along with tips for managing over-stimulation.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
By: Sean Pratt, Bessel A. van der Kolk, et al.
The connection between our mind and body when trauma and mental health affect it. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust.