Book Review – Dopamine Nation
An excellent book on the reasons behind and how to escape addiction.
Book Review – Healing
An exceptional book on problems and solutions for the US mental health system.
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 – The Self-Healing Mind
An encouraging book that primarily addresses complementary, natural strategies for improving mental health and depressive symptoms.
Book Review – Science over Stigma
An excellent resource based on facts, logic, and scientific findings for mental health clinicians and advocates in combating misinformation and educating the public to reduce harmful mental health stigma.
Book Review – Blame It on the Brain?
A book with spiritual viewpoints on mental health conditions that contradict medicine and science.
Book Review – A Helping Hand
An excellent book on depression and end-of-life issues from a Christian perspective that decreases stigma and provides rational biblical support to people struggling with depression and those who care for them.
Book Review – God’s Answers to Life’s Difficult Questions
An encouraging book on addressing emotional problems and life stresses from a Christian perspective.
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 – Overcoming Depression One Step at a Time
A good workbook on behavioral activation strategies for combatting depression.
Book Review – Activating Happiness
A good book on behavioral activation and other life strategies for dealing with depression.
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 – Feeling Good
An excellent book on using CBT skills to identify and correct thought patterns that lead to depression and anxiety.
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.
Book Review – Doing Supportive Psychotherapy
An excellent, approachable, and succinct book on supportive psychotherapy, and it might be the only book a clinician needs in getting started doing supportive psychotherapy.
Book Review – Shrink Rap: Three Psychiatrists Explain Their Work
A solid book on a variety of topics related to the practice of psychiatry.