Books on Mental Health Issues
Reading about problems your child may have can help you make good decisions and provide much-needed help.
Book Review: Helping Teens Who Cut
Review of a book describing the use of dialectical behavior therapy to help teens who self-injure, and recommending strategies for parents to use at home.
Review of a book describing the use of dialectical behavior therapy to help teens who self-injure, and recommending strategies for parents to use at home.
Book Review: The Bipolar Teen
This comprehensive guide looks at the specific issues facing teenagers with bipolar disorder, with practical advice for diagnosis and management.
This comprehensive guide looks at the specific issues facing teenagers with bipolar disorder, with practical advice for diagnosis and management.
Book Review: Talking Back to OCD
Detailed guide to a program of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to combat Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in kids.
Detailed guide to a program of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to combat Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in kids.
Book Review: Last Child in the Woods
Richard Louv's bestseller about helping kids return to nature is back in an updated and expanded version, suggesting nature as a remedy for obesity, ADHD and depression.
Richard Louv's bestseller about helping kids return to nature is back in an updated and expanded version, suggesting nature as a remedy for obesity, ADHD and depression.
Excerpts from Parenting Books in the Harried Parent's Book Club
Intrigued by a book on mental health in the Harried Parent's Book Club? Read more about it through excerpts from the books below. For excerpts on other topics, go to the full index.
Intrigued by a book on mental health in the Harried Parent's Book Club? Read more about it through excerpts from the books below. For excerpts on other topics, go to the full index.
Book Review: The Anxiety Cure for Kids
An easy method for helping children visualize and battle anxious thoughts, whether they have an actual anxiety disorder or milder anxiety problems.
An easy method for helping children visualize and battle anxious thoughts, whether they have an actual anxiety disorder or milder anxiety problems.
Reviews: Books on Mental Health
Browse reviews of parenting books on mental health from the Harried Parent's Book Club.
Browse reviews of parenting books on mental health from the Harried Parent's Book Club.
Book Review: Stop Walking on Eggshells
Review of a book on Borderline Personality Disorder, and how family members can support a person with BPD without getting caught up in the drama.
Review of a book on Borderline Personality Disorder, and how family members can support a person with BPD without getting caught up in the drama.
Book Review: The Bipolar Child
The third edition of the mental-health classic includes more information on medications, more updates on research, and more tips on helping your child.
The third edition of the mental-health classic includes more information on medications, more updates on research, and more tips on helping your child.
Book Review: Bipolar Kids
Review of a book by a child psychiatrist who describes bipolar strategies using case studies of children she's worked with.
Review of a book by a child psychiatrist who describes bipolar strategies using case studies of children she's worked with.
Book Review: The Hidden Gifts of the Introverted Child
Introverts may be mistakenly diagnosed with ADD, Asperger syndrome or anxiety disorder, but they also possess strengths and gifts for those patient enough to wait for them.
Introverts may be mistakenly diagnosed with ADD, Asperger syndrome or anxiety disorder, but they also possess strengths and gifts for those patient enough to wait for them.
Book Review: Your Child in the Balance
A psychiatrist offers a remarkably even-handed look at all sides of the debate over children and psychiatric medications.
A psychiatrist offers a remarkably even-handed look at all sides of the debate over children and psychiatric medications.
Book Review: Genius!
A look at the inner spirit of children with attention differences, with advice on how to raise them into healthy, productive adults.
A look at the inner spirit of children with attention differences, with advice on how to raise them into healthy, productive adults.
Book Review: Overcoming Teen Depression
Review of a book that explains the types of and treatments for depression, and lets parents know how they can help.
Review of a book that explains the types of and treatments for depression, and lets parents know how they can help.
Book Review: My Kind of Sad
Review of a book that talks to teens about depression, including quotes from teenagers themselves.
Review of a book that talks to teens about depression, including quotes from teenagers themselves.
Book Review: Journal Buddies
Review of an innovative journal to boost a girls' self-esteem by helping her celebrate the special things that others see in her.
Review of an innovative journal to boost a girls' self-esteem by helping her celebrate the special things that others see in her.
Book Review: The Floppy Sleep Game Book: A Proven 4-Week Plan to Get Your Child to Sleep
Learn relaxation techniques, guided visualizations, and bedtime routines that will help your child go to sleep, and get back to sleep.
Learn relaxation techniques, guided visualizations, and bedtime routines that will help your child go to sleep, and get back to sleep.
Book Review: Should I Medicate My Child?
A fairly even-handed look at the issues involved in deciding how to treat children with behavioral issues.
A fairly even-handed look at the issues involved in deciding how to treat children with behavioral issues.
Book Review: Freeing Your Child from Anxiety
"Powerful, practical solutions to overcome your child's fears, worries, and phobias." This book will help with a lot of your worries, too.
"Powerful, practical solutions to overcome your child's fears, worries, and phobias." This book will help with a lot of your worries, too.
Book Review: Don't Feed the Monster on Tuesdays!
With simple language and bright illustrations, this book for parents to read with their kids suggests visualizing negative self-talk as a little green monster in your head, and offers practical suggestions for shutting him up.
With simple language and bright illustrations, this book for parents to read with their kids suggests visualizing negative self-talk as a little green monster in your head, and offers practical suggestions for shutting him up.
Book Review: Imaginary Companions and the Children Who Create Them
Learn about research on invisible friends, and whether they are a normal part of child development or cause for concern.
Learn about research on invisible friends, and whether they are a normal part of child development or cause for concern.
Book Review: What It Takes to Pull Me Through
Ever wonder what goes on in a therapeutic boarding school for troubled teens? "What It Takes" follows one group through the 15-month program at one such facility, the Academy at Swift River in Massachusetts.
Ever wonder what goes on in a therapeutic boarding school for troubled teens? "What It Takes" follows one group through the 15-month program at one such facility, the Academy at Swift River in Massachusetts.
Book Review: Will's Choice
Review of a book that gives a mother's account of her son's suicide attempt and the emotional aftermath for the boy and his family, including treatment at a residential facility in Montana.
Review of a book that gives a mother's account of her son's suicide attempt and the emotional aftermath for the boy and his family, including treatment at a residential facility in Montana.