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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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 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 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.