Resources

Community Mental Health

An ongoing list of mental health resources for those in crisis or individuals needing community support.
If you would like to suggest an addition, please contact me.

Book & Podcast Recommendations

General

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Hold Me Tight - Dr. Sue Johnson

Hold Me Tight offers a revolutionary way to see and shape your relationships. Based on the science of love and the wisdom of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT), the stories, ideas, and exercises walk the reader through seven conversations that can define a love relationship. Learn to shape these crucial relationship moments and create a secure bond that will last for a lifetime.

The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change - Pauline Boss, PhD

How do we begin to cope with loss that cannot be resolved?

With a loss of trust in the world as a safe place, a loss of certainty about health care, education, employment, lingering anxieties plague many of us, even as parts of the world are opening back up again. Yet after so much loss, our search must be for a sense of meaning, and not something as elusive and impossible as "closure."

This book provides many strategies for coping: encouraging us to increase our tolerance of ambiguity and acknowledging our resilience as we express a normal grief, and still look to the future with hope and possibility.

Scattered Minds : The Orgins & Healig of Attention Deficit Disorder - Gabor Maté, MD

Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder – published in the U.S. as Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates And What You Can Do  About It – is written from the inside by a doctor who himself has Attention Deficit Disorder. It offers a completely new perspective on ADD and a new approach to helping children and adults living with the problems Attention Deficit Disorder presents.

  • Demonstrates that ADD is not an inherited illness, but a reversible impairment, a developmental delay

  • Explains that in ADD, circuits in the brain whose job is emotional self-regulation and attention control fail to develop in infancy—and why

  • Shows how “tuning out” and distractibility are the psychological products of life experience, from in utero onwards

  • Allows parents to understand what makes their ADD children tick, and adults with ADD to gain insights into their emotions and behaviors

  • Expresses optimism about neurological development even in adulthood

  • Presents a program of how to promote this development in children and adults alike

Parents & Caregivers

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Hold On to Your Kids - Gordon Neufeld, PhD; Gabor Maté, MD

This parenting classic is as relevant today as it was when it was first published, shining a light on one of the most misunderstood trends of our time: how the influence of peers, magnified by social media and video game culture, is replacing parents in the lives of children, and what parents can do about it—now featuring a new chapter.

The Emotional Lives of Teenagers - Lisa Damour, PhD

In teenagers, powerful emotions come with the territory. And with so many of today’s teens contending with academic pressure, social media stress, worries about the future, and concerns about their own mental health, it’s easy for them—and their parents—to feel anxious and overwhelmed. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Untangled - Lisa Damour, PhD

In her New York Times bestseller, Dr. Damour draws on decades of experience and the latest research to reveal the seven distinct—and absolutely normal—developmental transitions that turn girls into grown-ups, including Parting with Childhood, Contending with Adult Authority, Entering the Romantic World, and Caring for Herself. Providing realistic scenarios and welcome advice on how to engage daughters in smart, constructive ways, Untangled gives parents a broad framework for understanding their daughters while addressing their most common questions.

Under Pressure - Lisa Damour, PhD

Lisa’s second New York Times bestseller is a celebrated, urgently needed guide to addressing the alarming increase in anxiety and stress in girls from elementary school through college.

Topics from episode:

  • What is peer attachment vs peer orientation?

  • Why emotional health is messy and how to work through it

  • Where is the story of emotional health?

  • Working with the emotional playground

  • The consequences of our children holding back their feelings