Recommended Publications

Below is a list of publications and links we like and often recommend to our clients. Our clinical staff is ready to assist you with any mental health need whether it be a developmental life transition or a more serious emotional crisis.

ADHD

• Driven to Distraction (Revised): Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder, Edward M. Hallowell M.D., John J. Ratey M.D.

Anxiety & Panic

• Don’t Panic Revised Edition: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks, R. Reid Wilson
• The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook, Edmund J. Bourne, Ph.D.

Children & Parenting

• Without Spanking or Spoiling: A Practical Approach to Toddler and Preschool Guidance, Elizabeth Crary
• Your Defiant Child: Eight Steps To Better Behavior, Russell Barkley, Ph.D.
• Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall: A Parent’s Guide to the New Teenager, Revised and Updated, Anthony Wolf, Ph.D.
• Children: The Challenge : The Classic Work on Improving Parent-Child Relations–Intelligent, Humane & Eminently Practical (Plume), Rudolf Dreikars
• Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children, Thomas Gordon
• Gesell Institute of Child Development, Series of books: Louise Bates Ames and Frances L Ilg.

Cognitive Therapy

• Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, David Burns
• Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think, Dennis Greenberger & Christine Padesky
• When Am I Going to Be Happy?: How to Break the Emotional Bad Habits That Make You Miserable, Penelope Russianoff

Couples

• 20 Communication Tips for Couples: A 30-Minute Guide to a Better Relationship, Doyle Barnett
• Couple Skills: Making Your Relationship Work, Matthew McKay, Patrick Fanning, Kim Paley
• Why Marriages Succeed or Fail: And How You Can Make Yours Last, John Gottman, Ph.D.
• The Dance of Anger: A Woman’s Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships, Harriet Goldhor Lerner
• Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself, Melody Beattie
• The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to recognize it and how to respond, Patricia Evans
• The Good Marriage: How and Why Love Lasts, Judith Wallerstein
• Infidelity: A Survival Guide, Don-David Lusterman
• Violent Voices: 12 Steps to Freedom from Verbal and Emotional Abuse, Kay Porterfield
• Are You the One for Me?: Knowing Who’s Right and Avoiding Who’s Wrong, Barbara DeAngelis
• Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He’ll Change, Robin Norwood
• Divorce Busting: A Step-by-Step Approach to Making Your Marriage Loving Again, Michelle Weiner-Davis
• Intimate Partners: Patterns in Love and Marriage, Maggie Scarf
• The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman’s Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships, Harriet Goldhor Lerner
• Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships, David Snarch
• For Each Other, Lonnie Barbach
• Tell Me No Lies, Ellen Bader and Pete Pearson

Depression

• When Someone You Love is Depressed: How to Help Your Loved One Without Losing Yourself, Laura Rosen and Xavier Amador
• How to Cope with Depression, J. Raymond DePaulo and Keith Ablow
• How You Can Survive When They’re Depressed: Living and Coping with Depression Fallout, Anne Sheffield
• Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness, Daniel Amen

Divorce

• Crazy Time: Surviving Divorce and Building a New Life, Revised Edition, Abigail Tratford
• The Single Mother’s Book: A Practical Guide To Managing Your Children, Career, Home, Finances, And Everything Else, Joan Anderson
• Mom’s House, Dad’s House for Kids: Feeling at Home in One Home or Two, Isolina Ricci
• Growing Up With Divorce: Helping Your Child Avoid Immediate and Later Emotional Problems, Neil Kalter
• Life After Divorce: Create a New Beginning, Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse
• How to Help Your Child Overcome Your Divorce: A Support Guide for Families, First Edition, Elissa Benedek

Grieving

• The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief, Judy Tatelbbaum
• How It Feels When a Parent Dies, Jill Krementz
• The Fall of Freddie the Leaf: A Story of Life for All Ages, Leo Buscaglia
• How to Survive the Loss of a Love, Melba Colgrove, Ph.D., Harold Bloomfield, M. D., P. McWilliams

Incest & Sexual Abuse

• Surviving With Serenity: Daily Meditations for Incest Survivors, T. Thomas
• Secret Survivors, E. Sue Blume
• Survivors & Partners, Healing the Relationships of Sexual Abuse Survivors, Paul A. Hansen
• The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse, 3rd Edition, Wendy Maltz
• The Courage to Heal 4e: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse 20th Anniversary Edition, Laura Davis, and Ellen Bass
• Outgrowing the Pain: A Book for and About Adults Abused As Children, Eliana Gil
• Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence–from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, Judith Lewis Herman

Men’s Issues

• The New Male Sexuality, Revised Edition, Bernie Zilbergeld
• Wrestling with Love: How Men Struggle with Intimacy with Women, Children. Parents, and Each Other, Sam Oherson
• Passions of Fatherhood, Sam Oherson

Miscarriage

• Coping with a Miscarriage, Hank Pizer and Christine Palinski

Miscellaneous

• Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder, Paul Mason, MS and Randi Kreger
• Boundaries Where You End And I Begin: How To Recognize And Set Healthy Boundaries, Anne Katherine
• You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It Too: A Program for Controlling Bulimia, Lillie Weiss, Ph. D.
• It Will Never Happen to Me: Growing Up With Addiction As Youngsters, Adolescents, Adults, Claudia Black, Ph.D.
• Your Perfect Right: Assertiveness and Equality in Your Life and Relationships (9th Edition), R. Alberti, M. Emmons
• If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him!, S. Koppv
• When Bad Things Happen to Good People, H. Kushner
• The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition : A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth, M. Peck
• The Feisty Woman’s Breast Cancer Book, Elaine Bratnerv
• Practical Dreaming: Awakening the Power of Dreams in Your Life, Lillie Weiss, Ph.D.
• When Am I Going to Be Happy?: How to Break the Emotional Bad Habits That Make You Miserable, Penelope Russianoff

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

• Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior, Jeffrey Schwartz
• The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Washing: The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Judith L. Rapoport

PMS, Perimenopause, Menopause

• The Power of Perimenopause, Stephanie Bender
• The PMS & Perimenopause Sourcebook: A Guide to the Emotional, Mental, and Physical Patterns of a Woman’s Life, Lori Futterman and John Jones
• The Perimenopause Handbook, Carol Turkington
• Perimenopause: Changes in Women’s Health After 35, 2nd Edition, James Huston and Darlene Lanka
• Menopause: Questions You Have…Answers You Need (Questions You Have…Answers You Need Series), Annette Doran

Postpartum Depression

• This Isn’t What I Expected: Overcoming Postpartum Depression, R. Kleiman and Valerie Raskin

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

• Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences, Peter Levine and Ann Frederick
• I Can’t Get Over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors, Aphrodite Matsakis
• EMDR : The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma, Francine Shapiro and Margot Forrest
• Secrets, Lies, Betrayals : The Body/Mind Connection, Maggie Scarf

Spiritual / Religious

• The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, M. D.
• Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Neale Donald Walsch

Teens

• A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain, Merilee Strong
• Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation, Steven Levenkron
• Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, Mary Pipher
• Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self, Sara Shandler