Resources
Recommended Reading:
Parenting/Co-Parenting
Helping Your Anxious Child: A Step by Step Guide for Parents, Ronald Rapee PhD
Freeing Your Child from Anxiety: Practical Strategies to Overcome Fears, Worries, and Phobias and Be Prepared for Life, Tamar Chansky PhD
Helping Your Child with Selective Mutism: Practical Steps to Overcome a Fear of Speaking, PhD Angela E. McHolm
The Good Divorce, Constance Ahrons
Putting Children First: Proven Parenting Strategies for Helping Children Thrive Through Divorce, JoAnne Pedro-Carroll
The Connected Child: Bring hope and healing to your adoptive family, Karyn B. Purvis
Little Girls Can Be Mean: Four Steps to Bully-proof Girls in the Early Grades, Michelle Anthony
The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence, Rachael Simmons
Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls, Rachael Simmons
Masterminds and Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World, Rosalind Wiseman
How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success, Julie Lythcott-Haims
The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids, Madeline Levine PhD
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed, Jessica Lahey
Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys, Dan Kindlon
The Family Book, Todd Parr
The Feelings Book, Todd Parr
It is Ok to be Different, Todd Parr
Parenting With Love And Logic, Foster Cline & Jim Fay
Adolescents
Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood, Lisa Damour
Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape, Peggy Orenstein
The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults, Frances E. Jensen
Learning Differences
Smart but Scattered Teens: The "Executive Skills" Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential, Peg Dawson
The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success, Peg Dawson
The Work-Smart Academic Planner: Write It Down, Get It Done, Peg Dawson
Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, Peg Dawson
Taking Charge of ADHD, Russell A. Barkley
Overcoming Dyslexia, Sally Shaywitz PhD
The Dyslexic Advantage: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain, Brock L. Eide MD
The Gift of Dyslexia, Ronald D. Davis
Relationships/Marriage
Love Without Hurt: Turn Your Resentful, Angry, or Emotionally Abusive Relationship into a Compassionate, Loving One, Steven Stosny PhD
How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It, by Patricia Love and Steven Stosny
After the Affair: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful, Janis A. Spring
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, John Gottman PhD and Nancy Silver
Hold Me Tight: Your Guide to the Most Successful Approach to Building Loving Relationships, Sue Johnson
Adult Therapy
Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life, Susan Forward
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents, Lindsay Gibson PsyD
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Alice Miller
Soar Above: How to Use the Most Profound Part of Your Brain Under Any Kind of Stress, Steven Stosny PhD