In my therapeutic parent coaching, I use many materials, including the following:
- The Whole Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind; No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind; The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child; and The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired all by Daniel J. Siegel, MD and Tina Payne Bryson, PhD
- The Science of Parenting – How today’s brain research can help you raise happy, emotionally balanced children, Margot Sunderland
- Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More than Peers, Gordon Neufeld, PhD and Gordon Maté, MD
- How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success and Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, Julie Lythcott-Haims
- Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children’s Behavioral Challenges, Mona Delahooke, PhD
- Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting and Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings: How to Stop the Fighting and Raise Friends for Life, Laura Markham
- Gender Neutral Parenting: Raising kids with the freedom to be themselves, Paige Lucas-Stannard
- Raising Them: Our Adventure in Gender Creative Parenting, Kyl Myers
- How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, How to Talk so Teens Will Listen and Listen so Teens Will Talk, Siblings Without Rivalry, and How To Be The Parent You Always Wanted to Be, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
- Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, Daniel J. Siegel, MD
- The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults, Frances E. Jensen, MD
- Uncommon Sense for Parents With Teenagers and Staying Connected to Your Teenager, Michael Riera, PhD
- Yes, Your Teen is Crazy! – Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind; Yes, Your Parents Are Crazy! A Teen Survival Guide; and When Things Get Crazy With Your Teen: The Why, The How, and What to Do Now, Michael Bradley. EdD
- The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups, Leonard Sax, MD, PhD
- Materials from The Love and Logic Institute
- Active Parenting for Stepparents, Michael Popkin, PhD & Elizabeth Einstein, LMFT
- Active Parenting of Teens and Taming the Spirited Child – Strategies for Parenting Challenging Children Without Breaking Their Spirits, Michael Popkin, PhD
- Nurture Shock – New Thinking about Children, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
- What Kids Need to Succeed – Proven, Practical Ways to Raise Good Kids, Peter Benson, et al
- The Parent as Coach Approach, Diana Sterling
- Teaching Peace: A Restorative Justice Framework for Strengthening Relationships, Beverly Title, PhD
- Non-Violent Communication and Raising Children compassionately: Parenting the Nonviolent Communication Way, Marshall Rosenberg, PhD
- Parenting from the Inside Out – How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive, Daniel J. Siegel, MD and Mary Hartzell, MEd
- Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boys, and the New Realities of Girl World and Masterminds and Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends and the New Rules of Boy World, Rosalind Wiseman
- Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls, Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write about Bullies, Cliques, Popularity, and Jealousy, and Enough As She Is – How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy, and Fulfilling Lives, Rachel Simmons
- Untangled – Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood, Lisa Damour, PhD
- Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child – The Heart of Parenting, John Gottman, PhD
- Emotional Intelligence – Why it can matter more than IQ, Daniel Goleman
- Off Limits: A Parent’s Guide to Keeping Kids Safe from Sexual Abuse, Feather Berkower, MSW and Sandy Wurtele
- What Great Parents Do: 75 Simple Strategies for Raising Kids Who Thrive, Erica Reischer, PhD
- The Family Virtues Guide – Simple Ways to Bring Out the Best in Our Children and Ourselves, Linda Kavelin Popov
- Your Baby Is Speaking to You: A Visual Guide to the Amazing Behaviors of Your Newborn and Growing Baby, Kevin Nugent, photographs by Abelardo Morell
- The Happiest Baby on the Block and The Happiest Toddler on the Block – The New Way to Stop the Daily Battle of Wills and Raise a Secure and Well-Behaved One- to Four-Year Old, Harvey Karp, MD
- The Bottom Line for Baby: From Sleep Training to Screens, Thumb Sucking to Tummy Time – What the Science Says, Tina Payne Bryson, PhD
- It’s OK NOT to Share…and Other Renegade Rules for Raising Competent and Compassionate Kids, Heather Shumaker
- I Love You Rituals and Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline, Becky A. Bailey PhD
- Conscious Bedtime Stories, Andrew Neuman, consciousstories.com
- The Bully, the Bullied and the Bystander: From Preschool to High School – How Parents and Teachers Can Help Break the Cycle of Violence and other books by Barbara Coloroso
- Respectful Parents Respectful Kids – 7 Keys to Turn Family Conflict Into Cooperation, Sura Hart and Victoria Kindle Hodson
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Carol Dweck, PhD
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, Angela Duckworth, PhD
- Bringing Up Bébé – One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting, Pamela Druckerman
- Video Games & Your Kids – How Parents Stay in Control, Hillary Cash and Kim McDaniel
- Playful Parenting: An Exciting New Approach to Raising Children That Will Help You Nurture Close Connections, Solve Behavior Problems, and Encourage Confidence, Lawrence J. Cohen, PhD
- Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder, Richard Louv
- The Social Diet: 7 Essential Ingredients for Raising Well-Balanced, Socially Connected, and Caring Kids (Especially Those With SOCIAL CHALLENGES), Stacy Goresko, PhD
- Walking on Eggshells: Navigating the Delicate Relationship Between Adult Children and Parents, Jane Isay
- CD: The Gifts of Imperfect Parenting: Raising Children with Courage, Compassion & Connection, Brené Brown, PhD, MSW and other Brené Brown books including Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone, and The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to be and Embrace Who You Are
Psychotherapy Bibliography:
- Mind Over Mood: A Cognitive Therapy Treatment Manual for Clients, Dennis Greenberger, PhD, Christine Padesky, PhD
- The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook (Seventh Edition), Martha Davis, Ph.D., Elizabeth Robbins Eshelman, MSW, Matthew McKay, PhD
- The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook for Kids: Help for Children to Cope with Stress, Anxiety & Transitions, Lawrence E. Shapiro, PhD, Robin K. Sprague, LCPC
- The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science and The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity, Norman Doidge, MD.
- Rewire Your Brain: Think Your Way to a Better Life, John B. Arden, PhD
- Healing the Angry Brain: How Understanding the Way Your Brain Works Can Help You Control Anger & Aggression, Ronald Potter-Effron, MSW, PhD
- Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself, Kristin Neff, PhD
- Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understating Addiction, Maia Szalavitz
- Tell Your Children the Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence, Alex Berenson
- Never Enough – The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction, Judith Grisel, PhD
- Potatoes Not Prozac: Simple Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity, Updated Edition, Kathleen DesMaisons, PhD, Addictive Nutrition.
- Authentic Happiness, Martin Seligman, PhD
- Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love, Sue Johnson
- Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships, Sue Johnson
- Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think, Brian Wansink, PhD
- Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, Daniel G. Amen, MD
- The Power of TED*(*The Empowerment Dynamic), David Emerald
- Waking Up White – and Finding Myself in the Story of Race, Debby Irving
- Real American – a Memoir, Julie Lythcott-Haims
