Sendan CenterRecommended Reading
Most of the resources listed below are books that our providers recommend as resources to families. Some are links to websites with additional information and resources, these will open in a new tab when clicked.
Titles listed in bold are some of the most frequently recommended at Sendan Center.
Please note: we cannot vouch for all information provided in the resources below, but we believe these to be reasonable references and helpful to most people.
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- General Parenting
- Anxiety
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Sleep
- Mood
- Oppositionality/Defiance
- ADHD
- Self-injury/Cutting
- Learning/Academics/Special Education Accommodations/Executive Functioning
- Autism/Intellectual Disability/Developmental Disability
- Social Skills
- Attachment/Adoption
- Digital Wellness/Screen Time/Cybersafety/Social Media
- Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
- Constipation/Encopresis
- Miscellaneous
General Parenting:
- The Heart of Parenting: Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child, John Gottman PhD
- Getting to Calm, Laura Kastner, PhD
- Wise-Minded Parenting, Laura Kastner, PhD
- Getting to Calm: The Early Years, Laura Kastner, PhD (regarding 3-7 year olds)
- The Launching Years, Laura Kastner, PhD
- Raising Resilient Children, Robert Brooks, PhD, Sam Goldstein, PhD
- Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions, Pat Harvey, ACSW LCSW-C, Jeanine Penzo, LICSW
- The 10 Basic Principles of Good Parenting, Laurence Steinberg, PhD
- Optimistic Parenting, V. Mark Durand, PhD
- Helping Parents with Challenging Children, V. Mark Durand
- The Optimistic Child, Martin Seligman, PhD
- Without Spanking or Spoiling, Elizabeth Crary
- Raising Your Spirited Child, Mary Sheedy Kurchinka
- The Explosive Child, Ross Greene PhD
- www.livesinthebalance.org (Ross Greene, PhD)
Anxiety: (for OCD, see below)
- The Coping Cat Workbook (for youth ages 7-13) and Parent Companion, Philip Kendall, PhD, Kristina Hedtke, PhD (workbookpublishing.com)
- The C.A.T. Project workbook (for youth ages 14-17), Philip Kendall, PhD, ABPP, Muniya Choudhury, Ph.D., Jennifer Hudson, PhD, and Alicia Webb, PhD (workbookpublishing.com)
- Freeing Your Child from Anxiety, Tamar Chansky PhD (2014)
- Keys to Parenting your Anxious Child, 3rd edition (2015), K. Manassis MD
- Helping Your Anxious Child, 3rd edition (2022), Ronald Rapee, PhD et al
- Overcoming Your Child’s Fears and Worries: A Guide for parents using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques, Cathy Creswell, Lucy Willetts
- Riding the Wave (Workbook for teens with panic), Donna Pincus, Jill Ehrenreich, David Spiegel
- When Children Refuse School: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach, Parent Handbook, Kearney and Albano
- The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook for Teens, Jennifer Shannon, LMFT
- What You Must Think of Me, Emily Ford, Michael Liebowitz, MD, and L. Andrews (about social anxiety)
- Moonbeam: A Book of Meditations for Children, Maureen Garth
- What to Do When You Worry Too Much, Dawn Huebner, PhD
- Anxiety Disorders Association of America: www.adaa.org
- Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, Robert Sapolsky, PhD (regarding stress)
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD):
- Talking Back to OCD, John S. March, MD
- Helping Your Child with OCD (workbook for parents), Lee Fitzgibbons, PhD, Cherry Pedrick, RN
- It’s Only a False Alarm (workbook for OCD), John Piacentini, Audra Langley, Tami Roblek
- Freeing Your Child from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Tamar Chansky PhD
- The Thought that Counts, Jared Kant, M. Franklin, L. Andrews (written by a teen with OCD)
- What to do when your brain gets stuck, Dawn Huebner, PhD
- Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation: www.iocdf.org
Sleep:
- Take Charge of your Child’s Sleep, Mindell, PhD and Owens, MD
- Sleep Better!: A Guide to Improving Sleep for Children with Special Needs, V. Mark Durand PhD (2013)
- When Children Don’t Sleep Well, V. Mark Durand PhD
- Sleepless in America: Is your child misbehaving or missing sleep? Mary Sheedy Kurchinka
Mood:
- Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions, Pat Harvey, ACSW LCSW-C, Jeanine Penzo, LICSW
- Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens, Sheri Van Dijk, MSW
- What to Do When You Grumble Too Much, Dawn Huebner, PhD
- Thoughts and Feelings: Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life: A Workbook of Cognitive Behavioral Techniques, Matthew McKay PhD et al
- Mind over Mood, D. Greenberger, PhD and C. Padesky, PhD
Oppositionality / Defiance:
- The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child, Alan Kazdin, PhD
- The Everyday Parenting Toolkit, Alan Kazdin, PhD
- Your Defiant Child, Russell Barkley, PhD
- Without Spanking or Spoiling, Elizabeth Crary
- Parenting the Strong-Willed Child, Rex Forehand, PhD and Nicholas Long, PhD
- The Explosive Child, Ross Greene
- www.livesinthebalance.org
ADHD:
- ADHD: What Every Parent Needs to Know, Michael Reiff, MD, FAAP
- Making the System Work for your Child with ADHD, Peter Jensen, MD
- Taking Charge of ADHD, Russell Barkley, PhD
- Teaching Teens with ADD and ADHD, Chris A. Zeigler Dendy, M.S.
- Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: www.chadd.org
Self-Injury / Cutting:
- Helping Teens Who Cut, Second Edition: Using DBT® Skills to End Self-Injury (2017), Hollander
Learning / Academics / Special Education Accommodations / Executive Functioning:
- From Emotions to Advocacy, Pam Wright and Pete Wright
- Special Education Law, 2nd edition, Pete Wright and Pam Wright www.Wrightslaw.com
- The Learning Disabled Child: Ways that Parents can Help, Suzanne H. Stevens
- Smart, but Scattered, Peg Dawson and Richard Guare
- Late, Lost, and Unprepared, Joyce Cooper-Kahn, PhD, and Laurie Dietzel, PhD
- The Unmotivated Child, Natalie Rathvon, PhD
- The Myth of Laziness, Mel Levine
- Keeping A Head in School, Mel Levine
- A Mind at a Time, Mel Levine
- Outsmart Your Brain, Daniel Willingham
- PAVE (Partnerships for Action, Voices for Empowerment): wapave.org
- Learning Ally: www.learningally.org
- Cognitive Connections, Sarah Ward CCC-SLP’s practice: www.efpractice.com
- National Center for Learning Disabilities: www.ncld.org
Autism / Intellectual Disability / Developmental Disability:
- The Complete Guide to Autism Treatments. A Parent’s Handbook, Sabrina Freedman, PhD and Dr. Richard Foxx
- After the Tears: Parents talk about Raising a Child with a Disability, Robin Simons
- Association for Science in Autism Treatment: www.asatonline.org
- Fantastic Antone Grows Up, edited by Judith Kleinfeld (regarding FASD / ARND)
- Washington Autism Alliance: washingtonautismalliance.org
Social Skills
- The Science of Making Friends, Elizabeth Laugeson, PsyD (for teens and young adults and their parents)
- Social Fortune or Social Fate, Pamela Crooke, Michelle Garcia Winner
- Socially Curious and Curiously Social, Michelle Garcia Winner, Pamela Crooke
- Teaching Your Child the Language of Social Success, Marshall Duke, PhD et al
- Helping the Child that Doesn’t Fit In, Nowicki and Marshall Duke, PhD
- Social Stories: www.carolgraysocialstories.com
Attachment / Adoption:
- The Attachment Connection, Ruth P. Newton, PhD
Digital Wellness / Screen Time / Cybersafety / Social Media:
- Family Online Safety Institute: fosi.org
- Cybersafe: Protecting and Empowering Kids in the Digital World of Texting, Gaming, and Social Media, G. O’Keeffe
- Boston Children’s Hospital Digital Wellness Lab: digitalwellnesslab.org
- Cybersafe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens, Nancy Willard
- Cyber Safe Kids: Cybersafekids.ie
- Common Sense Media: commonsensemedia.org
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD):
- Stop Walking on Eggshells, Mason and Kreger
- The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook, Kreger
- National Education Alliance for BPD: www.borderlinepersonalitydisorder.org
- Dr. Robert O. Friedel, M.D: www.bpddemystified.com
Constipation / Encopresis:
- www.theinsandoutsofpoop.com
- The Ins and Outs of Poop, 2nd edition (for parents/caregivers), Thomas DuHamel PhD
- Softy the Poop (book for kids), Thomas DuHamel PhD
Miscellaneous:
- Brain Rules, John Medina, PhD (book and website brainrules.net)
- Brain Rules for Babies, John Medina, PhD (book and website brainrules.net)
- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: www.aacap.org
- National Institute of Mental Health: www.nimh.nih.gov
- American Academy of Pediatrics: www.aap.org
- American Psychiatric Association: www.psychiatry.org
- Tourette Association of America: www.tourette.org
- Regarding psychiatric medications: www.parentsmedguide.org
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) of Whatcom County: 360-671-4950, www.namiwhatcom.org