Recommended Reading
Books
- The Journey of the Heroic Parent by Brad Reedy – How to look at yourself while your child is in treatment
- The Good Enough Teen by Brad Sachs – How to raise adolescents with love and acceptance
- Brain Storm by Dan Seigel – A book about adolescent brain development
- Parallel Process by Krissy Pozatek – Growing alongside your adolescent in treatment
- Not By Chance by Timothy Thayne – The process of getting to and through and after residential treatment
- Your Kid’s Gonna be Okay by Michael Delman – Building executive functioning skills
- Dare by Barry McDonagy – The new way to end and stop panic attacks
- A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children by James Webb, Janet Gore, Edward, Amend, Arlene DeVries
- The Whole Brain Child by Dan Seigel – How the adolescent brain learns to deal with emotions
- The Anatomy of Peace by The Arbinger Institute– Resolving conflict with a heart of peace
- Brave, Not Perfect by Reshma Saujani – How to be brave in a world that teaches you to be perfect
- Improv Wisdom by Patricia Madson – How to apply the maxims of improvisational theater to real-life challenges
- The Awakened Brain by Lisa Miller – How spirituality builds resilience
- Mindfulness for Beginners by John Kabat-Zinn – How mindfulness helps us to love ourselves
- Brain Lock – Free yourself from Obsessive Compulsive Behavior by Jeffery Schwartz – Understanding OCD
- The Body Keeps Score by Bessel Vanderkolk – Text about the relationship between out body and our mind
- Daring Greatly by Brene Brown – Pop psychology regarding shame and vulnerability
- It Didn’t Start with you by Mark Wolynn – How inherited family trauma shapes who we are, and how to end the cycle
- Transgendered Teen by Stephanie Brill and Lisa Kenney – Is this a fad, a phase or a real issue?
- Closer Together but Further Apart by Robert Weiss – Exploring the cultural shifts brought about by a digital age
Movies/ Documentaries
- Childhood 2.0 – Documentary on social media and its effect on teen
- The Mind Explained – Netflix documentary on Anxiety
- Angst – A wonderful documentary on Anxiety
- The Social Dilemma – The role and effect of social media