Books for Parents and Families

Self-esteem

• Self-Esteem - A Family Affair
  by Jean Illsley Clarke
  
  
• How to Give Your Child a Great Self-Image
  by Dr. Debora Phillips with Fred Bernstein
  
  
• Keep Talking Mother-Daughter Guide to the Pre-Teen Years
  by Lynda Madison, Ph.D.
  
  
• "Why Doesn't Anybody Like Me?" A Guide to Raising Socially Confident Kids
  by Hara Estroff Morano
  
  
• Reviving Ophelia - Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
  by Mary Pipher, Ph.D.
  
  
• Growing a Girl - 7 Strategies for Raising a Strong, Spirited Daughter (birth to 12 years)
  by Dr. Barbara Mackoff
  
  
• Real Boys
  by William Pollack, Ph.D.
  
  
• A Fine Young Man: What Parents, Mentors and Educators Can do to Shape Adolescent Boys into Exceptional Men
  by Michael Gurian
  
  
• Perfectionism
  by Miriam Adderholt-Elliott
  
  

Difficult Kids and ADHD

• Moving Beyond ADD/ADHD
  by Rita Kirsch Debroitner and Avery Hart
  
  
• The Difficult Child
  by Stanley Turecki, M.D.
  
  
• Parenting a Child with a Behavior Problem
  by Penny Paquette and Cheryl Gerson Tuttle, M.Ed.
  
  
• Driven to Distraction (from childhood through adulthood)
  by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. and John J. Ratey, M.D.
  
  
• Survival Strategies for Parenting your ADD Child
  by George T. Lynn
  
  
• Bodily Harm: The Breakthrough Healing Program for Self-Injurers
  by Lader and Conterio
  
  

Divorce

• "Why Did You Have to Get a Divorce? And When Can I Get a Hamster?" A Guide to Parenting Through Divorce
  by Anthony W. Wolf, Ph.D.
  
  
• Difficult Questions Kids Ask [and are too afraid to ask] About Divorce (for toddlers-teenagers)
  by Meg F. Schneider and Joan Zuckerberg, Ph.D.
  
  
• Voices of Children of Divorce
  by Dr. David Royko
  
  

General Parenting Books

• Siblings Without Rivalry
  by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
  
  
• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk
  by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
  
  
• How to Talk So Kids Will Learn
  by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
  
  
• Emotionally Intelligent Parenting
  by Maurice J. Elias, Ph.D., Steven E. Tobias, Psy.D., and Brian S. Friedlander, Ph.D.
  
  
• 1-2-3 Magic
  by Thomas W. Phelan, Ph.D.
  
  
• Stepfamily Realities
  by Margaret Newman
  
  
• Parenting Toward Solutions
  by Linda Metcalf, Ph.D.
  
  
• When Mothers Work
  by Jan K. Peters
  
  

Death and Grieving

• Living with Death and Dying
  by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  
  
• On Children and Death
  by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  
  
• Questions and Answers on Death and Dying
  by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  
  
• Working it Through
  by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  
  
• Coping When a Parent Has Cancer
  by Linda Strauss
  
  
• My Mommy Has Cancer
  by Carolyn Stearns-Parkinson
  
  
• How to Help Children Through a Parent's Serious Illness
  by Kathleen McCue
  
  
• My Family is Living with Cancer
  by Marco Products
  
  
• The Perfect Stranger's Guide to Funerals and Grieving Practices edited
  by Stuart M. Matlins
  
  
• The Grieving Child
  by Helen Fitzgerald
  
  
• The Grieving Teen
  by Helen Fitzgerald
  
  
• Talking to Children About Death
  by Earl Grollman