Recommended Books

Parenting With Love and Logic : Teaching Children Responsibility by Foster W. Cline, Jim Fay

John Kennington, Fellowship Today Magazine, December 1990 - If you're looking for practical parenting skills, this book is a must. The pages are chock full of tips that you can implement right away...this book is one of the best parenting resources I've seen. Because of what I learned from this book, I've already seen positive changes in my relationship with my son. Don't let this vital resource slip by. (Jolene L. Roehlkepartain, OURS Magazine, February 1993)  Without question, this is the most practical book I have ever read on this subject, and I hope that every parent gets a copy and puts it into practice.

Taking Care of Your Child: A Parent’s Illustrated Guide to Complete Medical Care

by Robert H. Pantell, M.D., James F. Fries, M.D. & Donald M. Vickery

Giving the Love that Heals

by Harville Hendrix

This groundbreaking book offers a unique opportunity for personal transformation: by resolving issues that originated in our childhood, we can achieve a conscious, and thus healthier, relationship with our children, regardless of their age.   A remarkable tool for improving parent-child relationships.

Grandparents Raising Second Families

Grandparents' Rights: With Forms (Grandparents' Rights), by Traci Truly

With changes in demographics, grandparents are living longer and want to spend as much time as they can with their grandchildren. There is no other book in the marketplace that so clearly addresses the rights of this growing population.

To Grandma's House, We...Stay : When You Have to Stop Spoiling Your Grandchildren and Start Raising Them by Sally Houtman, Bob Rowland (Editor)

Arthur Kornhaber, M.D., President and Founder, Foundation For Grandparenting  - "Grandparents raising their grandchildren will do well to read and enjoy this book."

Raising Our Children's Children by Deborah Doucette-Dudman, Jeffrey R. Lacure

More than three million U.S. children live with grandparents or other relatives, but kinship care has yet to receive the social support accorded other forms of adoption and foster care. In this guidebook for grandparents parenting grandchildren, family therapist LaCure adds therapeutic guidelines to Doucette-Dudman's informed, empathic case studies. Principal issues addressed are managing stress, negotiating legal hurdles, locating support, telling children their life stories, managing conflict, and creating a stable, secure, permanent setting for children whose parents cannot or will not parent. Doucette-Dudman and LaCure stress that finding support for the extended family, without severing fragile ties with the nuclear family, and creating a home that best meets the needs of the child are the great challenges grandparents face. Kathryn Carpenter --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Relatives Raising Children: An Overview of Kinship Care by Joseph Crumbley (Editor), Robert L. Little (Editor)

RELATIVES RAISING CHILDREN: AN OVERVIEW OF KINSHIP CARE provides the reader with excellent descriptions of the many issues found in the growing phenomena of family members raising their grandchildren or other relative children. Although written for the professional, the format is easy to follow and very thorough. The authors present the many possible perspectives of the child, the relative caregiver and the parent in this difficult situation. They also provide intervention techniques for the professional.

Grandparents as Parents by Sylvie De Toledo, et al

Peter Warren, Seniors Today - This is a reference book, a character-builder, a challenge and a friend.

Private Practice

Breaking Free of Managed Care

by Dana C. Ackley

How to Build a Thriving Fee-For-Service Practice: Integrating the Healing Side with the Business Side of Psychotherapy

by Laurie Kolt

How to Get Referrals: The Mental Health Professionals Guide to Strategic Marketing

by Linda L. Lawless, Jean Wright

How to Build and Market Your Mental Health Practice

by Linda L. Lawless

Building Your Ideal Private Practice: A Guide for Therapists and Other Healing Professionals

by Lynn Grodzki

A practice-building guide for therapists and healing professionals. Therapist and business coach Lynn Grodzki shows readers how to build an ideal practice--one custom designed to be both highly profitable and personally satisfying. Here they will find information, coaching, and support to help them make more money in private practice, be more confident as business owners, generate a steady flow of referrals, set good practice policies, and stay profitable. Best of all, the inspiring, practical tone of the book will reduce the fear and anxiety that affect so many professionals in private practice.

The New Private Practice: Therapist-Coaches Share Stories, Strategies and Advice

by Lynn Grodzki (Editor)

Couples Therapy

The Sex-Starved Marriage: The Couple's Guide to Understanding Mismatched Sexual Desire and Boosting Their Marriage Libido,  by Michele Weiner-Davis

It's been estimated that one-third of couples face issues of low desire, the impact of which is felt beyond the bedroom: "Unsatisfying sexual relationships," Davis writes, "are the all-too-frequent causes of alienation, infidelity and divorce." Unfortunately, libidos are rarely equal; most marriages have a low-desire spouse and a high-desire spouse. Davis offers advice for both, bolstered by numerous examples of how that advice has worked for couples she's encountered during her two decades as a marriage counselor. Her "field-tested" tips are sensible rather than earth-shattering-talk openly, be kind, commit to making a change for the better and set concrete, attainable goals-but in the hard-to-talk-about realm of sex, very welcome indeed.  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The Infertility Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Cope with the Challenges while Maintaining Your Sanity, Dignity, and Relationships

by Judith C., Ph.D. Daniluk, Ph.D., Judith C. Daniluk, Margo Fluker

Testimonials from men and women who have survived fertility difficulties accompany exercises and practical strategies designed to help readers make informed decisions, cope with stress and anger, consider third-party reproductive options, and decide when it’s time to quit treatment and move on.

Patterns of Infidelity and Their Treatment (2nd Edition)

by Emily M. Brown

The new edition of this highly-regarded book includes comprehensive discussion of the nature of an affair and the five types of affairs and their underlying dynamics. The author addresses issues regarding revealing the affair, management of the consequences, rebuilding, and treating an unmarried third party, as well as the host of complex issues regarding children and custody arrangements. New material for the second edition includes cybersex and the effects of new technology on fidelity in marriage; the effects of managed care on treatment; marriage to the third party; and a new chapter on affairs and violence.

The Brief Couples Therapy Homework Planner

by Gary M. Schultheis, et al

Stop Blaming, Start Loving: A Solution-Oriented Approach to Improving Your Relationship

by William Hudson O'Hanlon, et al

Divorce Remedy: The Proven 7-Step Program for Saving Your Marriage

by Michele Weiner-Davis