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| Rating (1-5), Title | Author | |
| Abuse | ||
| 5 | The Courage to Heal + Workbook
Primarily for sexually abused women. |
Bass & Davis |
| 4 | Allies in Healing
For partners of abuse survivors |
Davis |
| 4 | The Battered Woman | Walker |
| 4 | Getting Free
For woman. Uses exercises |
NiCarthy |
| 4 | Victims No Longer
Male survivors of sexual abuse |
Lew |
| 3 | I Never Called It Rape
Date Rape |
Warshaw |
| Addictive Disorders and Codependency | ||
| 4 | AA | AA |
| 4 | A Time to Heal
ACOA |
Cermak |
| 4 | 12 Steps & 12 Traditions | AA |
| 3 | It Will Never Happen to Me
For children and spouses |
Black |
| 3 | When AA Doesn't Work for You
Rational Recovery |
Ellis & Velton |
| 3 | The Truth About Addiction & Recovery
A non-medical model approach |
Peele, Brodsky & Arnold |
| Adult Development and Aging | ||
| 4 | Necessary Losses
Growth and change through normal losses |
Viorst |
| 4 | Seasons of a Man's Life
Adult male development. Mid-life crisis. |
Levinson |
| Anger | ||
| 5 | The Dance of Anger
For women. |
Lerner |
| 4 | Anger: The misunderstood emotion
Focuses on coping. Comprehensive. |
Tavris |
| 4 | How to Control Your Anger Before It Controls You
REBT approach |
Ellis & Tafrate |
| 4 | Letting Go of Anger
Anger mngt styles and remedies. |
Potter-Efron & Potter-Efron |
| 4 | The Anger Workbook
Cognitive-behavioral |
Bilodeau |
| Assertiveness | ||
| 5 | The Assertive Woman
Scenarios, checklists, & exercises. |
Phelps & Austin |
| 5 | You're Perfect Right: A Guide to Assertive Living
Self-help/Training manual. Step-by-step, communication skills. |
Alberti & Emmons |
| 4 | When I Say No I Feel Guilty
Down to earth, practical |
Smith |
| 4 | Stand Up, Speak Out, Talk Back
13 behavioral steps. |
Alberti & Emmons |
| 4 | Asserting Yourself
Positive behavioral changes |
Bower & Bower |
| * | Stick Up for Yourself
For kids 8-12. Self-esteem |
Kaufman & Raphael |
| ADHD | ||
| 5 | Driven to Distraction
Primarily for adults |
Hallowell & Ratey |
| 5 | Taking Charge of ADHD
For parents of children with ADHD. |
Barkley |
| 4 | Parenting a Child With ADHD
Autobiographical, practical |
Boyles & Contadino |
| 3 | Learning to Slow Down & Pay Attention: A book for kids.
"Things I can do for myself." |
Nadeau & Dixon |
| Career Development | ||
| 5 | What Color Is My Parachute? | Bolles |
| 4 | Staying the Course (for men 35-55) | Weiss |
| 4 | Win-Win Negotiating | Jandt |
| 3 | Shifting Gears
Career changing |
Hyatt |
| 3 | Knock'Em Dead
Interviewing strategies |
Yate |
| Child Development and Parenting | ||
| 5 | Between Parent & Child
Improve comm. & understanding. Somewhat outdated. |
Ginott |
| 5 | Children: The Challenge
Effective and loving discipline |
Dreikurs |
| 5 | Dr. Spock's Baby & Child Care
Medical advice |
Spock & Rothenburg |
| 5 | The First Three Years of Life
Focus on intellectual and social functioning |
White |
| 5 | The First 12 Months of Life
Broad based developmental |
Caplan |
| 5 | How to Talk so Kids Will Listen & Listen so Kids Will Talk.
Communication - clear and understandable |
Faber & Mazlish |
| 5 | Infants & Mothers
Mother's role in development (1st year) |
Brazelton |
| 5 | 1-2-3 Magic
Discipline - behavioral, humorous. |
Phelan |
| 5 | Toddlers & Parents
Advice about typical developmental hurdles. |
Brazelton |
| 5 | To Listen to a Child
Focus on problematic events in a child's life. |
Brazelton |
| 5 | What Every Baby Knows
Broad approach - How to... |
Brazelton |
| 5 | What to Expect the First Year
Encyclopedia - volume of facts. |
Eisenberg et al. |
| 5 | Your Baby and Child
Typical problems from 1-5. |
Leach |
| 4 | Dr. Spock on Parenting
Collection of articles from 70's-80's. |
Spock |
| 4 | The Hurried Child
Deals with excessive expectations. |
Elkind |
| 4 | Parent Effectiveness Training
Communication |
Gordon |
| 4 | Parenting The Strong -Willed Child
Researched based. Increase positive behavior |
Forehand & Long |
| Communication & People Skills | ||
| 4 | Boundaries: When to Say Yes, When to Say No
Clarifying & establishing. Uses scripture. |
Cloud & Townsend |
| 4 | Getting to Yes
150pgs. Broad, step-by-step. |
Fisher & Ury |
| 4 | How to Communicate: The Ultimate Guide
Skill building. What to do. |
McKay et al. |
| 4 | Intimate Connections
Overcoming lonliness |
Burns |
| 4 | Intimate Strangers
Intimacy, comm, sex, and kids |
Rubin |
| 4 | Just Friends
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Rubin |
| 4 | People Skills
Steps - bridging gaps, listening, assertion, conflict mngt. |
Bolton |
| 4 | Shyness
Easy to read. Step-by step. |
Zimbardo |
| 4 | You Just Don't Understand: Women & Men in Conversation
Learn to manage the different comm. styles. |
Tannen |
| Death & Grieving | ||
| 5 | How to Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies
Different ways to grieve |
Rando |
| 5 | How to Survive the Loss of a Love
Broad concept of loss (death, rape, job, moving, success, youth. |
Colgrove et al. |
| 5 | When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Spiritual, comforting |
Kushner |
| 5 | On Children & Death
For people caring for dying kids |
Kubler-Ross |
| 4 | The Grief Recovery Handbook
Works through stages of grief. |
James & Cherry |
| 4 | Helping Children Grieve
|
Huntley |
| 4 | Learning to Say Goodbye
For children losing a parent |
LeShan |
| 4 | Recovering From the Loss of Child
|
Donnelly |
| 4 | Talking About Death
100 pgs. For kids 5-9 & a guide for parents. |
Grollman |
| Dementia – Alzheimer's | ||
| 5 | The 36 Hour Day
For families caring patients. |
Mace & Rabins |
| Divorce | ||
| 5 | Boys & Girls Book About Divorce
10yo+. Coping |
Gardner |
| 5 | Dinosaurs Divorce
30 pg picture book for younger kids |
Brown & Brown |
| 4 | Growing Up With Divorce
For divorced parents to help their kids. |
Kalter |
| 4 | How It Feels When Parents Divorce
|
Krementz |
| Eating Disorders | ||
| 4 | Dying to Be Thin
For clients and their families. Insight, motivation, knowledge. |
Sacker & Zimmer |
| Families & Step Families | ||
| 5 | Old Loyalties, New Ties
Mainly for therapists but also for clients. |
Visher & Visher |
| 4 | The Family Crucible
Systems approach. For therapists. |
Napier & Whitaker |
| 4 | Step by Step Parenting
Strategies for managing blended family issues. |
Eckler |
| 4 | Step-Fathering
Easy to relate to. |
Rosin |
| Love & Intimacy | ||
| 5 | Love Is Never Enough
Cognitive therapy approach |
Beck |
| 4 | The Art of Loving | Fromm |
| 4 | The Dance Of Intimacy
Psychoanalytic + family systems. |
Lerner |
| 4 | The Triangle of Love
Good advice but academic |
Sternberg |
| Marriage | ||
| 5 | Why Marriages Succeed or Fail
Researched based. Warning signs, stages, ways to improve. |
Gottman |
| 4 | Divorce Busting
Behavioral, not feeling oriented. Solution focused. |
Weiner-Davis |
| 4 | Getting the Love You Want
How to marital therapy at home. Family of origin. |
Hendrix |
| 4 | Intimate Partners
Stages. How to solve problems. Family of origin |
Scarf |
| * | We Love Each Other but....
How to think and act differently. resolving conflict. |
Wachtel |
| Men's Issues | ||
| 4 | Real Boys
Helping boys become healthy men. |
Pollack |
| 4 | Seasons of a Man's Life
Stages of male lifecycle. |
Levinson |
| Mood Disorders | ||
| 5 | Cognitive Therapy & The Emotional Disorders | Beck |
| 5 | Control Your Depression
Cog-Beh approach. |
Lewinsohn et al. |
| 5 | Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
Cog-Beh. Checklists, techniques, challenging faulty thinking. |
Burns |
| 5 | The Feeling Good Handbook
Self assessments and things to do. |
Burns |
| 5 | Mink Over Mood
Step-by-step cognitive therapy for lay people. |
Greenberger & Padesky |
| 4 | When Feeling Bad Is Good
Women & “healthy depressionâ€. |
McGrath |
| 4 | When Living Hurts
Brief & practical methods. Reference book for clinicians. |
Yapko |
| Pregnancy | ||
| 5 | The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth | Kitzinger |
| 5 | What to Expect When Your Expecting | Eisenberg et al. |
| Schizophrenia | ||
| 5 | Surviving Schizophrenia
Broad range. |
Torrey |
| 5 | Coping With Schizophrenia: A Guide for Families | Mueser & Gingerich |
| Self Management & Self-Enhancement | ||
| 5 | Learned Optimism
Research based |
Seligman |
| 5 | 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Covey |
| 5 | What You Can Change and What You Can't
Research based. Effects of biology, environment, will, etc. |
Seligman |
| 4 | Changing for the Good
Behavioral stages of change. Research based. |
Prochaska et al. |
| 4 | Don't Blame Mother
Mother – daughter relationship as adults. |
Caplan |
| 4 | Don't Sweat the Small Stuff and.....
Put things in perspective. |
Carlson |
| 4 | Feel the Fear & Do It Anyway
RET. Ways to challenge faulty thinking. |
Jeffers |
| 4 | A New Guide to Rational Living
RET |
Ellis & Harper |
| 4 | Overcoming Procrastination
RET |
Ellis & Kraus |
| 4 | Spontaneous Healing
Ways to optimize physical/health functioning. |
Weil |
| 4 | What to Say When You Talk to Yourself
Self-talk. |
Helmstetter |
| Sexuality | ||
| 4 | For Each Other
Primarily for women. Overcoming sexuality problems. |
Barbach |
| 4 | Illustrated Manual of Sex Therapy
Exercises/techniques to improve sex/problems. |
Kaplan |
| * | Becoming Orgasmic
Step by step for inorgasmic women. |
Heiman & LoPicolo |
| * | Making Love: A Man's Guide
How to... |
White |
| * | Making Love: A Women's Guide
How to... |
Davis |
| * | Seven Weeks to Better Sex
Enhancement/enrichment. |
Renshaw |
| Spiritual & Existential Concerns | ||
| 5 | Man's Search for Meaning
Existential complex reading |
Frankl |
| 4 | Finding Flow
Research based. Increase quality of daily life. |
Csikszentmihalyi |
| 4 | Peace, Love, & Healing
Inner-resource, self-healing approach to self-improvement. |
Siegel |
| 4 | The Road Less Traveled
Spiritual and psychological |
Peck |
| 4 | When All You Ever Wanted Isn't Enough
Spiritual |
Kushner |
| Stress Management | ||
| 5 | The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook
Resource book & manage stress. |
Davis et al. |
| 5 | The Relaxation Response
Relax to deal with stress. |
Benson |
| 5 | The Stress and Relaxation Handbook
Illustrated exercises to use throughout the day. |
Madders |
| 5 | The Wellness Book
Treating stress related illness. |
Benson & Stuart |
| 5 | Wherever You Go, There You Are
Practical guide to meditation |
Kabat-Zin |
| 4 | Beyond the Relaxation Response
Adds faith in a healing power |
Benson |
| 4 | Each Day a New Beginning | Hazelden Foundations |
| 4 | Minding the Body, Mending the Mind
Positive effects of relaxation on mind & body. |
Borysenko |
| 4 | Why Zebra's Don't Get Ulcers
Research based effects of stress on health. |
Sapolsky |
| Stress Management | ||
| 5 | Between Parents & Teenagers
Increase understanding and communication. |
Ginott |
| 5 | Reviving Ophelia | Pipher |
| 4 | All Grown Up & No Place to Go
Up to date understanding of teenage challenges. |
Elkind |
| Teenagers & Parenting | ||
| 4 | Eight Weeks to Optimal Health
Natural healing power. |
Weil |
| 4 | Fat Is a Feminist Issue: The Anti-Diet Guide for Women
Compulsive overeating from a feminist and psychoanalytic perspective. |
Orbach |
| 3 | The LEARN Program for Weight Control
Lifestyle changes. |
Brownell |
| Weight Management | ||
| 5 | The New Our Bodies, Ourselves
Comprehensive. Empowerment. |
Boston Women's Health Book Collection |
| 4 | Chicken Soup for the Women's Soul
Feel good book. |
Canfield et al. |
| 4 | The Seasons of a Woman's Life
Developmental |
Levinson & Levinson |
| 4 | The Second Shift
The inequity of gender roles. |
Hochschild |
