Recommended Reading
Child and Adolescents
Hurt 2.0: Inside the World of Today's Teens, Chap Clark
The Hurried Child: All Grown Up and No Place to Go, David Elkind
The Wonder of Boys/Girls, Michael Gurian
Teens Who Hurt: Clinical Interventions to Break the Cycle of Adolescent Violence, Kenneth V. Hardy and Tracey A Laszloffy
A Tribe Apart, Patricia Hersch
Raising Cain, Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson
The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults, Frances E. Jensen
But I Love Him: Protecting your Teenager Daughter from Controlling Abusive Dating Relationships, Jill Murray
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, Mary Pipher
Stopping the Pain: A Workbook for Teens Who Cut and Self Injure, Lawrence E. Shapiro
The Approximate Parent: Discovering the Strategies That Work with Your Teenager, Michael Y. Simon
Boundaries with Teens, John Townsend
Generation Me:Why Today's Young Americans are more Confident, Assertive, Entitled-and More Miserable Than Ever Before, Jean M. Twenge
How to Raise an Adult, Julie Lythcott-Haims
IGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy-and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood, Jean M. Twenge
Untangled Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood, Lisa Damour
Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls, Lisa Damour
In Their Own Words: A Sexual Abuse WOrkbook for Teenage Girls, Lulie Munson and Karen Riskin
Depression and Anxiety
Change Your Brain Change You Life, Daniel Amen
Feeling Good, David D Burns
When Panic Attacks, David D Burns
Overcoming Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Behavior and Cognitive Protocol for the Treatment of OCD, Gail Steketee
The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide, David J Miklowitz
The Bipolar II Disorder Workbook: Managing Recurring Depression Hypomania, and Anxiety, Stephanie McMurrich. Roberts, Louisa Grandin Siliva, and Noreen A Reilly-Harrington
Faith Based
Why You Do the Things You Do: The Secret to Healthy Relationships, Tim Clinton and Gary Sibcy
Boundaries, Henry Cloud and John Townsend
Parenting with Love and Logic, Foster Cline and Jim Fay
The Sexual Man, Archibald Hart
Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering, Timothy Keller
Search for Significance, Robert A McGee
Forgiveness: The Power and the Puzzle, Wendell E. Miller
Homosexuality and the Christian, Mark A Yarhouse
Understanding Gender Dysphoria, Mark A Yarhouse
Understanding Sexual Identity, Mark A Yarhouse
Boundaries for Your Soul, Alison Cook and Kimberly Miller
A Lasting Promise: A Christian Guide to Fighting for Your Marriage, Scott Stanley, Daniel Trathen, Savanna McCain, and Milt Bryan
Workbooks
Anxiety and Phobia Workbook, Edmond J Bourne
DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) Skills Training:Handouts and Worksheets, Marsha M Linehan
Boundaries Workbook, Henry Cloud and John Townsend
Stopping the Pain: A Workbook for Teens Who Cut and Self Injure, Lawrence E. Shapiro
Healing the Wounded Heart Workbook, Dan B. Allender
Mindfulness for Teen Anxiety, Christopher Willard
Anxiety Workbook for Teens, Lisa M. Schab
Sexual Trauma Workbook for Teen Girls, Raychelle Cassada Lohmann and Shella Raja
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills training with Adolescents, Jean Eich
The Five-Minute Journal, Alex Ikonn and Uj Ramdas
The Anti-Anxiety Notebook, Hod Tamir
A Year of Mindfulness, Jennifer Raye
Healing the Wounded Heart: The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope for Transformation, Dan B. Allender
Topical
The Wounded Heart (child sexual abuse), Dan B Allender
Healing ADD, Daniel Amen
The Gift of Imperfection, Brene Brown
Thought It was Just Me, Brene Brown
Quiet (Introversion), Susan Cain
Allies in Healing: When the Person you Love was Sexually Abused as a Child, Laura Davis
The Courage to Heal (sexual abuse), Laura Davis
Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
Why Marriages Succeed or Fail, John Gottman
Victim no Longer: Men Recovering from Incest and Other Sexual Child Abuse, Mike Lew
The Primal Wound, Nancy Newton Verrier
The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel Van Der Kolk
When Anger Hurts, Matthew McKay, Peter D. Rogers, and Judith McKay
Agencies and Hotline Numbers
Hotlines
Crisis Intervention 1.800.952.2335
National 24/7 1.800.273.8255
Parent Crisis Line 476.7322
Crisis Text Line Text HOME to 741.741
Apps
Safety Plan
What’s Up
CBT-i Coach
Not Ok
Intensive Out Patient Agencies
Coastal Turning Point - Santa Cruz 234.2010
Lotus Collaborative -Santa Cruz 855.852.4968
The Camp Recovery - 431.8056
The Meadows - Sunnyvale 866.681.3457
Eating Disorder Agencies: Lotus Collaborative and Inner Solutions -see website
Alcohol Support: AA - 475.5782
Santa Cruz Behavioral Health Crisis Resources
Mobile Emergency Response Team 1.800.952.2335
Crisis Stabilization Program 600.2800
Family Support Groups
NAMI - National Association for the Mentally Ill - 4278020
Questions or Comments?
Feel free to ask me any questions about the books on this list. I think its important to read any material with a critical eye. I'm more than happy to explain why I've chosen these recommended titles.