Book Reviews Articles

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• White Elephants
  As I cried, I wanted to believe it was the alcohol that induced Mom’s words.  I had to believe it was the alcohol.  I don’t want them.  The words rang in my ears.  That’s the ...
• How’s Your Family Really Doing? 10 Keys to a Happy Loving Family
  When you think about it, who better to write a book about the wellness of a family than a husband and wife team who are mental health professionals and parents of two children?  Don MacMannis, ...
• Ben Behind His Voices: One Family’s Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope
  Ben Behind His Voices is an inspirational story about a family’s experience with schizophrenia. The focus of Randye Kaye’s book is on her son Ben, who struggled for many years with mental health and substance ...
• Bright Not Broken: Gifted Kids, ADHD, and Autism
  Diane M. Kennedy and Rebecca S. Banks, the authors of Bright Not Broken, and the contributor, Temple Grandin, all have a combination of personal and professional experience with learning and developmental disabilities. Kennedy and Banks are ...
• When My Mommy Cries
  Crystal Godfrey LaPoint’s tender story in When My Mommy Cries is one that has needed to be told for some time now. Like any good children’s author, LaPoint is able to succinctly express her theme, ...
• Brave Girl Eating: A Family’s Struggle with Anorexia
  Between three and six percent of all teens struggle with some type of eating disorder, be it bulimia, binge eating, or anorexia. Because these illnesses involve eating, they seem to take a blow at family ...
• Transform Your Life Now
  If you Google the phrase "transform your life," you get results showing you how to do just that in 5 easy ways, in less than 30 minutes, with 10 technologies, by 10 truths, or in ...
• Keeping Your Child in Mind
  A 3-year-old is happily playing on the floor near his mommy’s feet as she works on her laptop.  Unknowingly, she knocks a ballpoint pen onto the floor.  The little boy picks up the ballpoint pen, ...
• Seeing Ezra: A Mother’s Story of Autism, Unconditional Love, and the Meaning of Normal
  Autism is viewed as a tragedy. As a disorder that robs children of their lives and parents of their children. It’s a disorder that must be properly diagnosed and treated. And the younger it’s caught ...
• Kids On Meds: Up-to-Date Information About the Most Commonly Prescribed Psychiatric Medications
  Kids On Meds by Dr. Kevin T. Kalikow is both an education and a go-to guide for the medical professional and layman alike. Parents will find this book particularly informative, whether they want to know ...
• The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us
  I am what science calls a singleton. And according to G. Stanley Hall, a psychologist, professor and the first president of the American Psychological Association, I am without a doubt narcissistic, spoiled and a bumbling ...
• Runaway Mind: My Own Race with Bipolar Disorder
  Runaway Mind by Maggie Reese was a thoroughly enjoyable, engaging and educational book filled with firsthand accounts of what life can be like with bipolar disorder.  Maggie invites us into her life during this very ...
• Mistaken for ADHD
  After reading this book I believe the title says it all: “Mistaken for ADHD.” The author, Dr. Frank Barnhill, attempts to help parents, teachers, social workers and doctors who deal with adolescents and young children ...
• The Available Parent: Radical Optimism for Raising Teens and Tweens
  As the parent of a teen, you might feel exactly like this mother: “My daughter went to high school her first day as a freshman and never returned. I lost my baby!” But you might ...
• Tiger Mother: Son of a Bitch
  It is hard to summarize and review Tiger Mother: Son of a Bitch without an undercurrent of disgust, even when trying to temper it with pity.  Derrick Lin’s self-published work, written in “a matter of ...
• Madness Made Plain: Henry’s Demons
  Henry’s Demons is what madness is all about. Patrick Cockburn, war correspondent for The Independent in London, writes this book about another war -- the war against schizophrenia within his own son, Henry. Moreover, Henry ...
• Better By Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong
  Intellectually we know that making a mistake gives us the opportunity to learn and grow. Still, that usually does little to assuage our shame, embarrassment and guilt when making an error. Of course, it depends ...
• Beyond the Blues: Understanding and Treating Prenatal and Postpartum Depression
  Beyond the Blues: Understanding and Treating Prenatal and Postpartum Depression & Anxiety by Shoshana Bennett, Ph.D. And Pec Indman, Ed.D., MFT is a very good read for such a serious subject that not only teaches ...
• Book Review: Mortal Bonds
  Losing one parent is devastating. But losing both parents within 13 days of each other? In his eBook memoir, Mortal Bonds, John Tsilimparis recounts his parents’ difficult deaths, his father from various health conditions and ...
• 9 Psychologist-Approved Must-Reads on Mental Health
  Psychologists are a discerning bunch when it comes to books. Because of their insider’s view of mental ...
• A Day at a Time: A Journal for Parents of Children with Autism
  Finally someone has stepped forward with a handy book that helps parents of children on the autistic spectrum organize their complex lives. Jen Merheb has created A Day at a Time: A Journal ...
• Overcoming ADHD: Helping Your Child Become Calm, Engaged and Focused Without a Pill
  Overcoming ADHD: Helping Your Child Become Calm, Engaged, And Focused – Without a Pill, was written by the late Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., noted psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, with Jacob Greenspan. Published in 2009, Overcoming ADHD ...
• Gentling: A Practical Guide to Treating PTSD in Abused Children
  William E. Krill, Jr.’s book Gentling: a Practical Guide to Treating PTSD in Abused Children is a must-read for anyone who works with children.  To say that it is a good idea to ...
• The Invisible Presence: How a Man’s Relationship with His Mother Affects All His Relationships with Women
  Michael Gurian’s The Invisible Presence examines the profound influence that the attachment of a mother forever has on her son, especially in regard to intimate relationships.  As the author writes: As much as this is a ...
• Putting Children First: Proven Parenting Strategies for Helping Children Thrive Through Divorce
  JoAnne Pedro-Carroll’s Putting Children First: Proven Parenting Strategies for Helping Children Thrive Through Divorce illuminates the many ways that divorce is not merely a separation between parents, but a whole-family issue that reverberates deeply for ...