Books
EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING / ATTENTION:
Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential...this book offers parents activities and techniques to boost their child's executive functioning skills (fundamental habits for getting organized, staying focused, and controlling impulses).
Raising Boys with ADHD. Secrets for Parenting Healthy, Happy Sons. By James W. Forgan, PhD & Mary Anne Richey, Prufrock Press, Waco, Tx 2012.
Kids Reach Their Potential. By Peg Dawson & Richard Guare
Take Charge of ADHD: The complete Authoritative Guide for Parents. By Russell Barkley, PhD.
Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with ADHD from Childhood through Adulthood. By Edward M. Hallowell and Ella J. Ratey.
EMOTIONAL REGULATION:
When My Worries Get Too Big by Kari Dunn Buron: A story with worksheets that helps elementary school-aged students with anxiety develop coping skills.
The Worried Child: Recognizing anxiety in children and helping them. By Paul Foxman, PhD
The Anxious Child: How parents and teachers can relieve anxiety in children. By John S. Dace.
My Book Full of Feelings by Amy Jaffe and Luci Gardner: A book that helps elementary school-aged students start to scale their emotions and control the size of their reactions.
What to Do When You Worry Too Much: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety by Dawn Huebner & Bonnie Matthews....an interactive self-help book designed to guide 6-12 year olds and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques most often used in the treatment of generalized anxiety.
Freeing Your Children From Anxiety: Powerful, Practical Solutions to Overcome Your Child's Fears, Worries and Phobias. By Tamar Chansky....a guide that provides parents with safe, proven methods for reducing childhood anxiety.
Helping Your Child Overcome Separation Anxiety or School Refusal, by A. Eisen & L. Engler
BEHAVIORAL REGULATION:
The Tough Kid Tool Box. By William R. Jenson...ready-to-use, classroom-tested materials to help motivate and manage hard-to-teach students.
The Explosive Child. By Ross Green....this book helps you understand why and when your child becomes explosive and how to respond in ways that are nonpunitive, nonadversarial, humane, and effective.
SOS, Help for Parents. A Practical Guide for Handling Common Everyday Behavior Problems. By Lynn Clark, PhD
123 Magic Effective Discipline for Children 2-12, Thomas Phelan, PhD
Treating Explosive Kids: A collaborative Problem Solving Approach. By Ross Green, PhD and Stuart Ablon, PhD
Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, Ed.D.
Skills Training for Struggling Kids: Promoting your Child's Behavioral, Emotional, and Social Development. By Michael Bloomquist.
SOCIAL SKILLS:
Should I? Or Shouldn’t I? What Would Others Think? A Game to Encourage Social Thinking and Social Problem-Solving
The Social Skills Picture Book: Teaching Play, Emotion and Communication to Children with Autism by Jed Bake
Social Rules for Kids: The Top 100 Social Rules Kids Need to Succeed, by Susan Diamond, MA, CCC
DEVELOPMENT:
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind. by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson....An explanation of why your child experiences meltdowns and aggravation, from the standpoint of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures.
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children. By Po Bronson and Ashley Merriman….This book discusses how modern society's most popular strategies for raising children are in fact backfiring because key points in the science of child development and behavior have been overlooked.
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. By Carol Dweck….Reframing the meaning of success. Success is something we achieve because we try hard and solve problems (not because we are born “smart,” “pretty,” or “strong”).
ADOLESCENCE:
Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls. By Rachel Simmons….The author, who visited 30 schools and talked to 300 girls, catalogues “girl” acts of aggression, including the silent treatment, note-passing, glaring, gossiping, ganging up, fashion police, and being nice in private/mean in public. She decodes the vocabulary of these sneak attacks, explaining, for example, three ways to parse the meaning of "I'm fat."
Real Boys : Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood. By William Pollack….Being a boy these days isn't all fun and games. Boys struggle to cope with the mixed messages, conflicting expectations, and increasingly complex demands of our evolving society.
Uncommon Sense for Parents with Teenagers. by Michael Riera….Advice for parents that sometimes goes against the established grain but “makes sense. “ For example, don't give advice even when asked, embrace estrangement (it's part of your teenager's development), and take a demotion and move from "manager" to "consultant." Uncommon Sense is an excellent book for any parent of an older child or teenager.
It's a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons. By Andrea Buchanan….An often-humorous collection of essays about the experience of mothering boys.
Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers. By Linda Perlstein….Perlstein examines all facets of being an ordinary "tween." She discusses such issues as consumerism (according to Perlstein, 12- to 15-year-olds spend on average $59 a week, not counting money their parents spend on them); romance, which doesn't necessarily imply the couple ever spends time alone together; and the phenomenon of instant messaging-all to give parents of young children an idea of what lies ahead.
Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall: A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager. By Anthony Wolf…. a survival guide for parents who find themselves marooned among volatile and incomprehensible aliens on Planet Teen.
You're Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation. By Deborah Tannen….peeling back the layers of meaning that make up conversations between mothers and their teenage daughters.
CURRICULUM:
Circles, by the James Stanfield Company, Inc.: A group or individual curriculum for teaching middle school-aged students with intellectual impairments about social boundaries and relationships in a concrete way.
Superflex, by Stephanie Madrigal and Michelle Garcia Winner: A group or individual curriculum for helping elementary school-aged students build social thinking skills.
You Are a Social Detective, by Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke: A group or individual curriculum for helping elementary school-aged students build social thinking skills.
A Quest for Social Skills, by JoEllen Cumpata and Susan Fell: A group curriculum for teaching middle-school aged students social skills.
Coping Cat, by Philip C. Kendall: A group curriculum for children with anxiety. Ages 6-17.
Coping Power, by John Lochman, Ph.D. and Karen Wells, Ph.D.: A group curriculum for children who have trouble with anger/aggression. Grades 4-6.
Taking Action, by Kevin Stark and Philip C. Kendall: A group curriculum for children with depressed mood. Ages 9-13.
GRIEF:
I wish I could Hold Your Hand: a Child’s Guide to Grief & Loss, By Pat Palmer
Help Me Say Goodbye, Activities for Helping kids Cope When a Special Person Dies, Janis Silverma
Sad Isn’t Bad: A Good Grief Guidebook for Kids Dealing with Loss, Michael Mundy
I Feel, Feel, Feel about Losing Someone Special Book, Jane Un
Invisible String, Patricia Karst
When I Feel Sad, Cornelia Maude Spelman
The Fall of Freddie the Leaf L. Buscaglia,
The Velveteen Rabbit, M. Hague
Gentle Willow A Story For Children About Dying, Joyce C. Mills
Moon shadow’s Journey, Gillian Lobel,
When Dinosaurs Die: Guide to Understanding Death, L.K & M Brown.
It Must Have Hurt a Lot: A Child’s Book About Death, D Sanford
*This book list is provided as a courtesy and should not be considered an endorsement for sales or use by myself or the district that employs me. The book descriptions on this website have been copied from their book vendors.