Each of our clinicians have contributed to the resources listed below. Our clinicians may not have read all of the resources shown. We will also be including resources that patients and families have found helpful. Our goal is to pass along useful information so that our patients and families can learn from one another.

General Mental Health and Well-Being

Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No, To Take Control of Your Life by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend

The Emotional Life of Your Brain by Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D., and Sharon Begley

I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me by Jerold J. Kreisman, MD

Marriage, Family, and Parenting

Ross W. Greene, Ph.D.

The Explosive Child by Ross W. Greene, Ph.D.

The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family by Karyn B. Purvis, Ph.D., David R. Cross, Ph.D., and Wendy Lyons Sunshine

Love and Power: How to Raise Competent, Confident Children by Glenn Austin, M.D.

Struggle for Intimacy by Janet Geringer Woititz, Ed.D.

Circle of Security International 

ARC Framework (Attachment, Regulation and Competency)

The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman

Up and Down the Worry Hill by Aureen Pinto Wagner, PhD

Nobody’s Perfect by Ellen Flanagan Burns & Erica Pelton Villnave

Busy Body Bonita by Tolya L. Thompson

Moody Cow Meditates by Kerry Lee MacLean

Grief

A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis

A Grace Disguised by Jerry Sittser

Broken for Good by Rebecca Rene Jones

The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson

Autism

The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida, YA Yoshida & David Mitchell

Workbooks

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook by Matthew McKay, Ph.D., Jeffrey C. Wood, Psy.D., and Jeffrey Brantley, M.D.

The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook by Martin M. Antony, Ph.D. and Richard P. Swinson, M.D.

The Feeling Good Handbook by David D. Burns, M.D.

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