7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens
by Sean Covey
In an entertaining style, Covey provides a step-by-step guide to help teens improve self-image, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve their goals, get along with their parents, and much more. In addition, this book is stuffed with cartoons, clever ideas, great quotes, and incredible stories about real teens from all over the world.
A Common Struggle
by Patrick J. Kennedy
A Common Struggle weaves together Kennedy's private and professional narratives, echoing that for him, the personal is political and the political personal. Beyond his own story, Kennedy creates a roadmap for equality in the mental health community, and outlines a bold plan for the future of mental health policy.
Beautiful Boy
by David Sheff
What had happened to my beautiful boy? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond help.
Calming the Emotional Storm
by Sheri Van Dijk
When you have difficulties managing your emotions, it can feel like you’re losing control of your life. Anger, hurt, grief, worry, and other feelings can be overwhelming, and how you react to these emotions can impact your ability to maintain relationships or even think straight! This book is your guide to coping with difficult emotions by using dialectical behavior therapy.
Leadership and self-deception
Through a story everyone can relate to about a man facing challenges on the job and in his family, the authors expose the fascinating ways that we can blind ourselves to our true motivations and unwittingly sabotage the effectiveness of our own efforts to achieve success and increase happiness. Discover how to consistently tap into an innate ability that dramatically improves both your results and your relationships.
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
by Carol Dweck
Dweck shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset - those who believe that abilities are fixed - are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset - those who believe that abilities can be developed.
Mindsight
by Daniel J. Siegel
A guide to the practice of “mindsight,” the potent skill that is the basis for both emotional and social intelligence. From anxiety to depression and feelings of shame and inadequacy, from mood swings to addictions, OCD, and traumatic memories, most of us have a mental “trap” that causes recurring conflict in our lives and relationships. By cultivating mindsight, all of us can effect positive, lasting changes in our brains - and our lives.
Not by Chance
by Tim R. Thayne
Your struggling teenager is going to a residential or wilderness treatment program to help with their addictions, learning disabilities, or emotional/behavioral issues. As an owner/therapist of wilderness and residential programs, Thayne was frustrated when young people made monumental progress, only to return home where things quickly unraveled, so his mission became to vastly improve long-term success.
The Parallel ProcesS
by Krissy Pozatek
Using case studies garnered from her many years as an adolescent and family therapist, Pozatek shows parents how they can help their children by attuning to emotions, setting limits, not rushing to their rescue, and allowing them to take responsibility for their actions, while recognizing their own patterns of emotional withdrawal, workaholism, and of surrendering their lives and personalities to parenting.
Parenting from the Inside Out
by Daniel J. Siegel
Born out of a series of parents' workshops that combined Siegel's cutting-edge research on how communication impacts brain development with Hartzell's decades of experience as a child-development specialist and parent educator, this book guides parents through creating the necessary foundations for loving and secure relationships with their children.
The Journey of the Heroic Parent
by Brad M. Reedy PhD
When a child is hurting, it can be the most painful challenge a parent will face. With compassion and perspective, Dr. Brad Reedy offers hope and wisdom for children who struggle and the parents who love them. This book will take you on a journey to a happier, healthier relationship with your struggling child—and yourself. Through lessons learned, mother, father, and child will achieve greater understanding, love, and humanity—no matter what the outcome.
Colleges that Change Lives
by Loren Pope
Choosing the right college has never been more important—or more difficult. For the latest edition of this classic college guide, Hilary Masell Oswald conducted her own tours of top schools and in-depth interviews, building on Loren Pope's original to create a totally updated, more expansive work. Masell Oswald also offers a new chapter on how students with learning disabilities can find schools that fit their needs. For every prospective college student searching for more than football and frat parties, Colleges That Change Lives will prove indispensable.
Made for Good Purpose
by Michael McManmon
Many teenagers with Asperger's Syndrome leave school feeling unsure of how to take the next steps in their lives. Leaving the comforts of home and facing the unknown can be daunting, but with the right support and advice these young adults can adapt and enjoy their newly-acquired independence. Filled with useful advice, easy-to-apply techniques, and insights from both the author's own experiences of Asperger's Syndrome and those of his students, this book is a practical guide for helping young adults on the spectrum achieve independence.