Book Review – Straight Talk about Psychiatric Medications for Kids
An excellent and easily accessible resource for parents on psychiatric medication for children and adolescents.
Book Review – Dopamine Nation
An excellent book on the reasons behind and how to escape addiction.
Book Review – Free Range Kids
A refreshing, counter-cultural book on promoting independence in children.
Book Review – Raising Good Humans Every Day
A helpful parenting book on using mindfulness strategies in parenting children.
Book Review – When Worry Works
A good book that addresses the maladaptive patterns that parents can experience when reacting to anxiety over their adolescent’s academic achievement.
Book Review – Let It Go
An excellent self-help book on effectively downsizing, decluttering, and dealing with the emotions stirred up in the process.
Book Review – Mental Health and the Church
A book that focuses on reducing mental health stigma in the church and improving church worship environments, primarily for families of children with special needs.
Book Review – I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die
A first-person account of experiencing and overcoming depression and suicidality as a Christian.
Book Review – The Self-Healing Mind
An encouraging book that primarily addresses complementary, natural strategies for improving mental health and depressive symptoms.
Book Review – The Overload Syndrome
A Christian book that looks at the problems of overconsumption and unrealistic expectations from several different viewpoints and continues to explore the theme of overload and margin that the author introduced in his earlier book Margin.
Book Review – I’m Not Supposed to Feel Like This
A Christian book on anxiety and depression that outlines strategies that predominantly rely on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) approaches.
Book Review – The ACT Workbook for Teens with OCD
A great workbook on acceptance and commitment strategies and exposure and response prevention for teens with OCD.
Book Review – The OCD Workbook for Teens
An excellent, engaging self-help workbook on research-proven strategies for combatting OCD.
Book Review – Control Your Depression
A dated yet solid book on strategies and exercises for improving depression that includes an excellent chapter on behavioral activation strategies.
Book Review – Dare to Lead
An excellent book on leadership that introduces the concept of vulnerability as the foundation of developing strengths, such as courage, integrity, authenticity and connection.
Book Review – Feeling Good
An excellent book on using CBT skills to identify and correct thought patterns that lead to depression and anxiety.
Book Review – Margin
An excellent book that describes the causes of and solutions for overcommitment and burnout.
Book Review – Feeling Great
An exceptional book on identifying and correcting thought patterns that lead to depression and anxiety.
Book Review – Manage Your Depression through Exercise
A solid book on improving depressive symptoms through physical exercise.
Book Review – The Practice of Supportive Psychotherapy
A revolutionary book when published in 1984 as the first book dedicated to supportive psychotherapy but is now most useful as historical reference.