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Understanding Mental Health

Books:

  • The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook – Edmund J. Bourne
  • Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir by Marsha Linehan
  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone – Lori Gottlieb
  • Understanding Mental Illness: A Comprehensive Guide to Mental Health Disorders for Family and Friends – Carlin Barnes

Online Resources:

Resources For Parents

Video Resources:

Eating Disorder Information for Caregivers:

Books:

  • Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape – Peggy Orenstein
  • Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity – Peggy Orenstein
  • Calmer, Easier, Happier Screen Time – Noel Janis-Norton
  • The App Generation – Howard Gardner, Katie Davis
  • The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood & Family Relationships in the Digital Age – Catherine Steiner Adair
  • Glow Kids. How Screen Addiction is Hijacking our Kids – Nicholas Kardaras
  • How to Break Up With Your Phone – Catherine Price
  • Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children’s Behavioral Challenges – Mona Delahooke
  • Brain-Body Parenting: How to Stop Managing Behavior and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids – Mona Delahooke
  • Mind – Daniel Siegel
  • Aware – Daniel Siegel
  • Becoming Aware – A 21-Day Mindfulness Program for Reducing Anxiety and Cultivating Calm – Daniel Siegel
  • No-Drama Discipline: The Whole Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind – Daniel Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
  • The Power of Showing Up – Daniel Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
  • Parenting From the Inside Out – Daniel Siegel & Mary Hartzell
  • Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD – Eli R. Lebowitz
  • What to Say to Kids When Nothing Seems to Work: A Practical Guide for Parents and Caregivers – Adele Lafrance & Ashley Miller
  • Homecoming: Overcome Fear and Trauma to Reclaim Your Whole, Authentic Self – Thema Bryant, Ina King, et al.
  • Thriving in the Wake of Trauma: A Multicultural Guide – Thema Bryant-Davis
  • Anxious Child Anxious Parent – By Lyons & Wilson
  • This Too Shall Pass: Stories of Change, Crisis and Hopeful Beginnings – By Julia Samuel
  • Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions Into Adulthood – By Lisa Damour
  • The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired – By Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
  • 7 Simple Steps to UNDERSTANDING YOUR TEENAGER (Just Kidding, That’s Impossible) – By Danelle Spence
  • The Whole Brain Child – Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson
  • I Still Love You: Nine Things Troubled Kids Need From Their Parents – By Michael Ungar
  • Hold On To Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers – By Gabor Mate
  • The Conscious Parent – By Shefali Tsabary
  • Untamed: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions Into Adulthood – By Lisa Damour
  • Getting Past Your Past – By Francine Shapiro
  • The Opposite of Worry: The Playful Approach to Childhood Fears and Anxieties – By Lawrence J. Cohen
  • What to Say to Kids When Nothing Seems to Work – Dr. Adele LaFrance and Dr. Ashley Miller
  • Understanding Mental Illness: A Comprehensive Guide to Mental Health Disorders for Family and Friends – Carlin Barnes

Online Resources:

Apps:

  • Calm
  • 10% Happier
  • Anxiety Release
  • Mindshift
  • Colorfy
  • What’s Up – A Mental Health App
  • Nature Sounds Relax and Sleep
  • Shine
  • Breathwrk
  • AntiStress Anxiety Relief Game
  • Moodnotes
  • The Mightier Parent App

Resources For Youth

Books:

  • What To Do When You Worry Too Much: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Anxiety – By Heubner & Matthews
  • What Do You Do With a Feeling? Your Guide To Becoming a Feelings Expert – By Tasha Belix
  • What do You Do With a Problem? – By Kobi Yamada
  • In My Heart – By Jo Witek
  • Getting in Touch With Your Inner Bitch: Don’t Pretend You Don’t Know What I’m Talking About – By Elizabeth Hilt
  • I am Stronger than Anxiety: Children’s Book About Overcoming Worries, Stress and Fear – Elizabeth Cole
  • DBT Skills Workbook for Teens: A Fun Guide to Managing Stress, Understand Your Emotions and Learn Effective Communication Skills – Teen Thrive
  • Anxiety Relief for Teens – Regine Galanti
  • Why Do I Feel So Worried – Tammi Kirkness
  • I Choose to Calm My Anxiety – Elizabeth Estrada
  • Calm Ninja – Mary Nhin, Grow Grit Press et al.
  • Anxious Ninja – Mary Nhin, Grow Grit Press et al.
  • Help Your Dragon Deal with Anxiety – Steve Herman
  • Anxiety Relief for Kids – Bridget Flynn Walker & Michael A. Tompkins
  • Sometimes I’m Anxious – Poppy O’Neill & Amanda Ashman-Wymbs
  • A Little Spot of Anxiety – Diane Alber
  • Breathing is My Superpower – Alicia Ortego
  • What to do When You Worry Too Much – Dawn Huebner & Bonnie Matthews

Online Resources:

Apps:

  • Little Children, Big Challenges: Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame
  • Headspace
  • Three Good Things: A Happiness Journal
  • Stop, Breathe, Think!
  • Super Stretch Yoga HD
  • Smiling Mind
  • Insight Timer
  • Mightier
  • Moshi Kids: Sleep and Meditation
  • DreamyKid
  • Manatee & Me
  • Positive Penguins
  • Super Stretch Yoga
  • Happy Me: Mood Tracker & Diary
  • Mindshift CBT
  • Breathe 2 Relax
  • Calm
  • 7 Cups: Online Therapy & Chat
  • Happy Color
  • Colorfy

Resources For Professionals

Books:

  • The Body Keeps the Score – By Bessel van der Kolk
  • Waking the Tiger – By Peter Levine with Ann Frederick
  • Doing Psychotherapy – By Robin Shapiro
  • Easy Ego State Interventions – By Robin Shapiro
  • The Highly Sensitive Child – By Elaine Aron
  • Treatment Manual for Anorexia Nervosa: A Family-Based Approach – By James Lock, Daniel le Grange, W. Stewart Agras, and Christopher Dare
  • Internal Family Systems Therapy – By Richard Schwartz

Online Resources: