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— Malorie Blackman
Abusive Relationships
- Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
- The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to recognize it and how to respond
- Battered Woman
- Walking on Eggshells
- The National Domestic Violence Hotline: Call 1-800-799-7233 or Text 1-800-787-3224
- Sexual Abuse in Marriage: Recognizing and dealing with sexual abuse in marriage by D. Anne Pierce
- Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundt Bancroft
ADHD & Attention Concerns
- Organizing from the Right Side of the Brain: A Creative Approach to Getting Organized
- What Does Everybody Else Know That I Don’t?: Social Skills Help for Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
- Time Management for the Creative Person: Right-Brain Strategies for Stopping Procrastination, Getting Control of the Clock and Calendar, and Freeing Up Your Time and Your Life
- Learning Outside The Lines: Two Ivy League Students with Learning Disabilities and ADHD Give You the Tools for Academic Success and Educational Revolution
- Making the System Work for Your Child with ADHD
- Mastering Your Adult ADHD: A Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Program Client Workbook (Treatments That Work)
- Taking Charge of ADHD, Third Edition: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents
- Driven to Distraction (Revised): Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder
Anger
- Letting Go of Anger: The Eleven Most Common Anger Styles And What to Do About Them
- Beating Anger: The Eight-Point Plan for Coping with Rage
- How To Control Your Anger Before It Controls You
- Dance of Anger: A Woman’s Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
Assertiveness & Healthy Communication
- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
- The Dance of Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You’re Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed, or Desperate
- Your Perfect Right: Assertiveness and Equality in Your Life and Relationships (9th Edition)
- The Assertive Woman (Personal Growth)
- You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
Borderline Personality Disorder
- I Hate You–Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
- Sometimes I Act Crazy: Living with Borderline Personality Disorder
- The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder: New Tools and Techniques to Stop Walking on Eggshells
- Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder
Caregiver Stress
- The Resourceful Caregiver: Helping Family Caregivers Help Themselves, 1e
- The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for Persons with Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementing Illnesses, and Memory Loss in Later Life
Childhood Physical Abuse
- Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse podcast by Cathy Kezelman
- The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting
- Outgrowing the Pain: A Book for and About Adults Abused As Children
- A Child Called It: One Child’s Courage to Survive
Childhood Sexual Abuse
Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse:
- RAINN: Rape Abuse & Incest National Network
- Hush: Moving From Silence to Healing After Childhood Sexual Abuse
- The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, 20th Anniversary Edition
- The Courage to Heal Workbook: A Guide for Women and Men Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
- Voices of Courage: Inspiration from Survivors of Sexual Assault
- Lucky
Ritual Abuse During Childhood:
Male Incest Survivors:
- A Beautiful World: One Son’s Escape from the Snares of Abuse and Devotion
- Father’s Touch, Second Edition
Teen Survivors of Sexual Abuse:
- It Happened to Me: A Teen’s Guide to Overcoming Sexual Abuse (workbook)
- How Long Does It Hurt: A Guide to Recovering from Incest and Sexual Abuse for Teenagers, Their Friends, and Their Families
Chronic Illness
Codependency
- Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
- The Language of Letting Go: Hazelden Meditation Series
Couples
Marriage:
- National Institute of Marriage
- Boundaries in Marriage by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend
- Boundaries in Marriage Workbook by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend
- The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country’s Foremost Relationship Expert
- Divorce – Remarriage and the Innocent Spouse: Counseling for Betrayed Believers (Straight Talk Bible Study, Book One)
- Scared Marriage
- Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships
- Why Marriages Succeed or Fail: And How You Can Make Yours Last
- Before the Last Resort: 3 Simple Questions to Rescue Your Marriage
- One More Try
- Hope for Every Marriage
- The Meaning of Marriage
- Getting Unstuck in Your Relationships
- Healing the Hurt in Your Marriage
- The Emotionally Destructive Marriage: How to Find Your Voice and Reclaim Your Hope
- How We Love: Discover Your Love Style, Enhance Your Marriage
- Marital Challenges
All Romantic Relationships:
- What Makes Love Last?: How to Build Trust and Avoid Betrayal
- The Science of Trust: Emotional Attunement for Couples
- Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help YouFind – and Keep – Love
- Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
- Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, 20th Anniversary Edition
- The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts
Sex & Intimacy:
- Pure Intimacy
- Intimacy & Desire: Awaken the Passion in Your Relationship
- Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
- Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships
- The Return of Desire: A Guide to Rediscovering Your Sexual Passion
Breakups, Separation, and Divorce:
- Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay In or Get Out of Your Relationship
- Dinosaurs Divorce (A Guide for Changing Families)
- The Boys and Girls Book About Divorce
- Should I Try to Work It Out?: A Guidebook for Individuals and Couples at the Crossroads of Divorce
- The Divorce Remedy: The Proven 7-Step Program for Saving Your Marriage
- Holding on to Hope During Separation
Infidelity & Affairs:
- After the Affair, Updated Second Edition: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful
- Torn Asunder: Recovering From an Extramarital Affair
- Shattered Vows: Hope and Healing for Women Who Have Been Sexually Betrayed
- I Love You but I Don’t Trust You, The Complete Guide to Restoring Trust in Your Relationship, By: Mira Kirshenbaum
- Blindsided by His Betrayal: Surviving the Shock of Your Husband’s Infidelity, Surviving Infidelity, Advice from a Marriage Therapist, Book 1, By: Caroline Madden PhD
- How to Help Your Spouse Heal from Your Affair, A Compact Manual for the Unfaithful
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- By: Linda J. MacDonald
- After the Affair, Updated Second Edition, By: Janis A. Spring
- When Sorry Isn’t Enough, Making Things Right with Those You Love, By: Gary Chapman, Jennifer Thomas
- Beyond Boundaries: Learning to Trust Again in Relationships by Dr. John Townsend
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Aftershock: Overcoming His Secret Life with Pornography: A Plan for Recovery
Difficult Childhood (Abusive, Neglectful, or Unhealthy Parents)
- Resources for Adult Survivors of Child Abuse and Neglect
- Adult Children of Alcoholics
- Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
- The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
- Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-Up’s Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents
- If You Had Controlling Parents: How to Make Peace with Your Past and Take Your Place in the World
- Non-Negtiables for Effective and Biblical Abuse Ministry
Difficult Emotions & Painful Times
- The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation & … Tolerance (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
- Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
- The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics)
- When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics)
- Free Mindfulness Podcasts
Depression & Anxiety
- Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255
- Depression and Mental Health Social Community Support Groups
- Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
- Overcoming Depression: A Cognitive Therapy Approach Workbook (Treatments That Work)
- Mastery of Your Anxiety and Worry: Workbook (Treatments That Work)
- The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
- I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
- Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
Confidence & Self-Esteem
- The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
- The Self-Esteem Workbook
- Ten Days to Self-Esteem
- Radical Self-Acceptance: A Buddhist Guide to Freeing Yourself from Shame
- The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Building Social Confidence: Using Compassion-Focused Therapy to Overcome Shyness and Social Anxiety (The New Harbinger Compassion-Focused Therapy Series)
Disordered Eating, Body Image, and Weight Concerns
- Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
- Dying to Be Thin: Understanding and Defeating Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia–A Practical, Lifesaving Guide
- Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance
- Intuitive Eating
- Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life
- Overcoming Your Eating Disorders: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach for Bulimia Nervosa and Binge-Eating Disorder Workbook (Treatments That Work)
- Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder
- Skills-based Learning for Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder: The New Maudsley Method
Grief & Loss
- On Death and Dying
- A Grief Observed
- On Children and Death: How Children and Their Parents Can and Do Cope With Death
- The Grief Recovery Handbook, 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses including Health, Career, and Faith
- Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations For Working Through Grief
- When Bad Things Happen to Good People
- When Someone You Love Dies
For Survivors of Suicide:
- After Suicide Loss: Coping with Your Grief
- Dying to Be Free: A Healing Guide for Families After a Suicide
- Healing After the Suicide of a Loved One
- Unfinished Conversation: Healing from Suicide and Loss
- Black Suicide: The Tragic Reality of America’s Deadliest Secret
Mental Health & Wellness
- Happy
- Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
- Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
- The ART OF LIVING CONSCIOUSLY: The Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life
- Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
- Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
Narcissism
- Trapped in the Mirror: Adult Children of Narcissists in their Struggle for Self
- Emotional Vampires: Dealing with People Who Drain You Dry
- Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Stop Obsessing!: How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions (Revised Edition)
- The Woman Who Thought too Much: A Memoir
Race, Culture, Ethnicity and Identity Development
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race
- White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism
- What Are You?: Voices of Mixed-Race Young People
- Dim Sum, Bagels, and Grits: A Sourcebook for Multicultural Families
- Adolescent Ethnic and Racial Identity Development (presentation)
Rape & Sexual Assault
- National Sexual Assault Hotline | 1.800.656.HOPE(4673)
- The Rape Recovery Handbook: Step-by-Step Help for Survivors of Sexual Assault
- Recovering From Rape
- Journey to Wholeness: Healing from the Trauma of Rape
- If She is Raped
- The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse (Revised Edition)
- Recovery: How to survive sexual assault for women, men, teenagers, their friends and families
- I Can’t Get Over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors
Acquaintance Rape:
Schizophrenia
- Surviving Schizophrenia, 6th Edition: A Family Manual
- The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
- How to Live with a Mentally Ill Person: A Handbook of Mentally Ill Strategies
- Coping with Schizophrenia: A Guide for Families
Social Anxiety & Shyness
- Painfully Shy: How to Overcome Social Anxiety and Reclaim Your Life
- Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques
- The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Building Social Confidence: Using Compassion-Focused Therapy to Overcome Shyness and Social Anxiety (The New Harbinger Compassion-Focused Therapy Series)
- Dying of Embarrassment: Help for Social Anxiety and Phobia
- Diagonally-Parked in a Parallel Universe: Working Through Social Anxiety
Setting Boundaries
- Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
- Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren’t
Spirituality and Purpose
- Man’s Search for Meaning
- A New Earth – Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
- The Last Lecture
- The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning
- The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
Stress Reduction and Management
- The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
- Wherever You Go, There You Are
Supporting Loved Ones with Mental Health & Addiction Concerns
- “One Hour At A Time,” a free podcast by Mary Woods
- Al-Anon: Support and Resources for Family and Friends of People with Drug or Alcohol Problems
- NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness (Resources and Support for Family and Friends)
- Everything Changes: Help for Families of Newly Recovering Addicts
- Demystifying Psychiatry: A Resource for Patients and Families
- Talk Therapy TV – Videos about the warning signs, symptoms, and treatment options for mental illnesses and addictions.
Supporting Loved Ones Who Are Survivors of Assault or Abuse
Substance Abuse, Addiction, and Problem Drinking
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (Prevention, Recovery, and Treatment)
- Online Recovery Resource Directory
- Tips for Reducing Alcohol Consumption
- The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
- My Name Is Bill W
- Twenty Four Hours a Day
- A Gentle Path through the Twelve Steps: The Classic Guide for All People in the Process of Recovery
- 12 Smart Things to Do When the Booze and Drugs Are Gone: Choosing Emotional Sobriety through Self-Awareness and Right Action
- 12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery: Avoiding Relapse through Self-Awareness and Right Action
- Trauma and Addiction: Ending the Cycle of Pain Through Emotional Literacy
- Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction
Teenagers & Parenting
- Focus on the Family Counselors
- Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
- How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
- Yes, Your Teen is Crazy!: Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind
- Getting to Calm: Cool-Headed Strategies for Parenting Tweens + Teens
- Parenting Teens With Love And Logic: Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood, Updated and Expanded Edition
- Positive Discipline for Teenagers, Revised 3rd Edition: Empowering Your Teens and Yourself Through Kind and Firm Parenting
- 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
- Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
- Parents, Teens and Boundaries: How to Draw the Line
- If Your Adolescent Has an Anxiety Disorder: An Essential Resource for Parents (Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands’ Adolescent Mental Health Initiative)
- All Grown Up And No Place To Go: Teenagers In Crisis, Revised Edition
Traumatic Experiences
- Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy
- The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment (Norton Professional Book)
- False Intimacy: Understanding the Struggle of Sexual Addiction
- Is God saying He’s the One?: Hearing from Heaven about That Man in Your Life
- Reclaiming Surrendered Ground: Protecting Your Family from Spiritual Attack
- The Two Sides of Love
- Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage in the Bible: A Fresh Look at What Scripture Teaches
Not Marked: Finding Hope and Healing after Sexual Abuse - Addictions: A Banquet in the Grave: Finding Hope in the Power of the Gospel
- Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child
- Good and Angry: Redeeming Anger, Irritation, Complaining, and Bitterness
- Your Single Treasure: Good News About Singles and Sexuality
- The Power of a Praying Wife
- Healing the Wounded Heart: The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope of Transformation
- Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets them Free
- A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph
- Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No, to Take Control of Your Life