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Recommended Readings

Millions of self-help books populate the shelves of libraries and bookstores. It can be difficult to know which ones to read in your limited time. Therefore, we've put together a list of books that we have found the most accurate and helpful in our work with clients.

As therapists and psychologists with many years of experience helping individuals, couples and families, we are in a unique position to use many resources that help people grow and change.

While books, websites, parenting products, and other resources cannot substitute for therapy, sometimes they can help individuals grow and change when therapy is not needed or to supplement therapy.

By clicking the link and purchasing an item, you are helping us help others. Doll and Associates provides some free services to clients who cannot afford it when purchases are made through this link.
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Note: We are in the process of updating this page! New book recommendations will be added on an ongoing basis! Please check back frequently for updates!

Click on a topic to see the recommendations for that category:

• Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
• Anxiety
• Bipolar Disorder
• Depression
• Eating Disorders
• Marriage
• Parenting
• General Mental Health

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

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Gives parents a framework for building a successful parenting program at home. Reviews the educational rights of children with ADHD and outlines a process for working with school district's to get your child the help they need.

A great resource for parents and teachers, written by the leading authority in the field of ADHD. Dr. Barkley explains his scientific findings in easy-to-understand language, including practical applications of these findings in everyday life. Well-organized for easy reference.

A book for children ages 6-10 to learn more about themselves and what it means to live with ADD. Clear, easy to understand writing, with checklists and other tools to help kids maintain attention. Also has information on other topics that are often difficult for kids with ADD, such as friendships and schoolwork.
 

This book explains ADHD to the child (9-12) in easy-to-understand language, and teaches how children and parents can learn to manage it. Includes sections on understanding medications, making friends, and becoming more organized. 
 

This activity workbook can be used with the other "Putting on the Breaks" books and uses pictures, puzzles, mazes, and games to help young readers learn skills to put their knowledge about ADHD into action!

A comprehensive resource that helps teachers meet the needs of children with ADHD. Includes management techniques that promote on-task behavior, multi-sensory instruction strategies that maintain student attention, strategies for preventing problems during transition times, and much more.

Anxiety

An excellent workbook that provides straight-forward, practical tools for managing anxiety and phobia.

This is one of the best books a parent of an anxious child can read. Explains what causes anxiety and exactly how to go about helping your child feel better. Includes chapters on excessive worrying, nighttime fears, social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and more. Explains how parents can use the same cognitive-behavioral strategies at home that a professional therapist would use to help your anxious child. Highly recommended.

Anxiety, fear, and shame can paralyze us if we don't understand these feelings. The book explains how to become unparalyzed by being proactive, speaking up, thinking positively, and being alert to negative feelings about the self that impose limitations and inhibit healthy interpersonal behavior.

 An excellent resource for children ages 6-12 that uses cognitive-behavioral concepts that assist kids in managing their worries. There are great metaphors and illustrations that help to make the strategies easy to understand. The book also has spaces to draw and write which make the book interactive and help children master their new skills related to reducing anxiety. Parents also enjoy the book because it helps them understand how to best help their child.

Bipolar Disorder

A parenting book with practical advice and effective strategies for helping children with depression and bipolar disorder; gives suggestions for teaching children how to manage their moods.

A comprehensive reference guide covering proper diagnosis, treatment, and long-term management of the disorder. Explains medical information in understandable terms; includes a chapter on hospitalization. Also discusses parental stress and coping, as well as educational strategies.

 Marya Hornbacher. (2008) Hardcover, 299 pages. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
This is a very personal account of living with bipolar disorder.

Depression

This book is a "classic" in the field of overcoming depression, and is still one of the best books to explain cognitive therapy in easy-to-understand terms. Highly recommended.

O'Connor, Richard (1999). Paperback, 368 pages. Publisher: Berkley Trade.
Explains how depression is a learned behavior that can be unlearned through thinking differently and incorporating coping skills into daily life. Outlines what individuals and family members can do to support professional therapy for overcoming depression.

Thase, Michael, & Lang, Susan (2006). Paperback, 208 pages. Publisher: Oxford University Press.
The authors show how chronic mild depression can be relieved by learning strategies that help individuals to recognize and change negative and distorted thinking patterns that lead to a downward spiral of pessimism. They also discuss when a person should seek help from a therapist and what kinds of therapy seem the most effective.

Fassler, David, & Dumas, Lynne (1998). Paperback, 224 pages. Publisher: Penguin.
For parents who have depressed children, here is practical, easy-to-understand information on what you can do to help. Discusses how to tell if your child is at risk; how to spot symptoms; depression's link with other problems and its impact on the family; teen suicide; finding the right diagnosis, therapist, and treatment.

Robert Westermeyer (2004). Paperback, 222 pages. Publisher: Quick Publishing.
Straight-forward, practical book to help beat depression.

General Mental Health

Courage to Change-Courage To Change is a website that pulls together products for help with life’s challenges. Resources are for busy professionals who do not have time to seek out these valuable resources one at a time. Courage To Change offers a wide range of books, board games, videos, and other resources that can be used to further self awareness, to aid in therapy, or to be used as tools by mental health professionals.