Recommended Books for Parents

Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD: A Scientifically Proven Program for Parents is the first and only book to provide a completely parent-based treatment program for child and adolescent anxiety.

In this recommended book, Dr. Greene offers parents a sensitive, practical approach and useful strategies to decreasing antagonism, reducing your child's explosions, engaging in collaborative problem-solving, and helping your child be more flexible and handle frustration more adaptively.

This recommended interactive, self-help workbook is written to help parents come up with solutions to dealing with their children's anger and rage. Parents will learn to teach their children anger-management skills, how to relate to others when strong emotions arise, as well as how to listen, understand, recognize, and cope with their child's anger.

This user-friendly guide will empower parents and caregivers of young children to forge rewarding, joyful relationships with children 2 to 7 year old.

This best selling parenting book teaches parents effective ways to communicate with and to engage cooperation in their children. The book offers many illustrations and examples of the skills.

This recommended book provides practical ideas as to how to maintain open and mutually respectful dialogue between parents and teens. The authors provide many examples and illustrations of effective communication strategies.

This recommended book incorporates neuroscience about the developing brain and teaches twelve key strategies to raising children that foster healthy emotional and cognitive development, and leads to calmer, more balanced, and happier children.

This is another highly recommended book by Dr. Siegel and Dr. Payne Bryson. The book provides practical guidance to parents on how to connect with children first in order to move from a more reactive mode of functioning to a more receptive mode of learning where children can be redirected to make better choices and are able to manage big emotions more effectively.

This parent guide provides up-to-date information about the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD. It includes an 8- step behavior management plan for 6- to 18-year olds with ADHD.

This guide teaches parents proven CBT techniques for managing and overcoming child anxiety, worries, and fears. There is also a free downloadable workbook for children that is offered to users of this book.

This parent guide teaches cognitive-behavioral techniques for helping both younger and older children who are manifesting various forms of anxiety including social anxiety, Tourette’s Syndrome, hair-pulling, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and more. The revised and expanded edition was published in July 2014.