 | How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.00 I often say that if everyone read the first 50 pages of this book, I'd be out of a job. Leave it lying around for older children and partners to read -- the cartoon examples make it incredibly accessible.
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 | Raising Your Spirited Child Rev Ed: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $5.25 This book is highly readable, and provides practical advice and visible relief to parents of spirit.
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 | The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children by Ross W. Greene
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $4.99 Greene offers useful strategies for helping children who struggle with surprises, transitions, flexibility, and frustration tolerance.
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 | The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder, Revised Edition by Carol Kranowitz
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $8.98 Good intro to sensory/regulatory issues, from the Occupational Therapy point of view.
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 | Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too by Adele Faber
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $1.62 More advice from the authors of "How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk."
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 | What to Do When You Worry Too Much: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety (What to Do Guides for Kids) by Dawn Huebner
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.00 The author provides an overview of empirically validated strategies for coping with anxiety, all in kid-friendly language.
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 | Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall: A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager, Revised and Updated by Anthony E. Wolf Ph.D.
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.78 Helps parents to understand and cope with the push-pull of adolescence.
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 | Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Vintage) by Charles Barber
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $8.83 While approximately half of my clients choose to combine therapy and medication, Barber offers perspective on the aggressive onset and marketing of psychotropic drugs in the U.S.
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 | Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women by Karen Casey
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 Terrific bedside companion, affirmations to start or end the day.
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 | Woman's Comfort Book: A Self-Nurturing Guide for Restoring Balance in Your Life by Jennifer Louden
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $4.10 Words to help you calm, rebalance, and rescript your inner voice.
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 | Fighting for Your Marriage: Positive Steps for Preventing Divorce and Preserving a Lasting Love (New & Revised) by Howard J. Markman
Buy new: $11.02 / Used from: $2.55 Solid, research-based strategies for strengthening relationships. Couples I work with have found it extremely helpful.
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 | The Complete Idiot's Guide to Surviving Divorce, 3rd Edition by Pamela Weintraub
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $0.01 Great balance of practical guidance and emotional support. I particularly appreciate the chapters on helping children adjust, and how to put their developmental needs ahead of any conflict.
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 | Custody Chaos, Personal Peace: Sharing Custody with an Ex Who is Driving You Crazy by Jeffrey P. Wittman
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $1.36 Guidance and practical support to divorced parents who are feeling frustrated, angry, and alone.
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 | The Courage To Be a Single Mother: Becoming Whole Again After Divorce by Sheila Ellison
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $1.01 Helpful advice from the founder of singlemomsconnect.com.
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 | Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay In or Get Out of Your Relationship by Mira Kirshenbaum
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $1.13 Kirshenbaum offers practical strategies for dealing with relationship ambivalence and moving forward, either way.
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 | Don't Sweat the Small Stuff--and it's all small stuff (Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Series) by Richard Carlson
Buy new: $10.39 / Used from: $0.01 Easy read, great writer, not to be confused with similar titles.
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 | A Time to Grieve: Meditations for Healing After the Death of a Loved One by Carol Staudacher
Buy used from: $4.42 Simple yet brilliant, non-demanding bedside companion to those making the journey through grief.
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 | Love's Executioner: & Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Perennial Classics) by Irvin D. Yalom
Buy new: $10.54 / Used from: $4.00 Yalom is both inspiring and real, a gift to therapists and their clients in this classic collection of stories.
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 | Two Homes by Claire Masurel
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.80 Terrific book for preschoolers who experience separation or divorce, with no mention of either.
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 | The Family Book by Todd Parr
Buy new: $10.39 / Used from: $7.34 Politically correct and reassuring all at once.
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 | Starbright--Meditations for Children by Maureen Garth
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $4.55 Meditations for kids. Especially helpful at bedtime, or whenever the worry monsters come around.
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