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

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