Essential Resources for ADHD

Parenting the ADHD Child (Russell Barkley)

Taking Charge of ADHD (Barkley, 1995)

For Anger Management / Aggression

Parenting Your Out of Control Child (Kapalka, 2007)

The Explosive Child (Greene, 2001)

Essential Resources for Anxiety / Worries

Help for Worried Kids (Last, 2006)

Talking Back to OCD (March, 2007)

Freeing Your Child from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (Chansky, 2000)

If Your Adolescent Has an Anxiety Disorder (Foa and Andrews, 2006)

Getting Your Child to Say “Yes” to School (Kearney, 2007)

Helping Your Child Overcome Separation Anxiety or School Refusal (Eisen & Engler, 2006)

Essential Resources for Behavioral Management

SOS: Help for Parents, Third Edition (L.Clark, 2005)

Parents are Teachers (Becker, 1971)

Living with Children (Patterson, 1976)

Your Defiant Child (Barkley and Benton, 1998)

Your Defiant Teen (Barkley, Robin, and Benton, 2008)

Parent and Adolescents (Patterson and Forgatch, 1987)

Essential Resources for Coping with Difficult Situations

The Optimistic Child (Seligman, Reivich, Jaycox, and Gillham, 1995)

Essential Resources for Depression/Bipolar

If Your Adolescent has Depression or Bipolar Disorder (Evans and Andrews, 2005)

Raising a Moody Child (Fristad and Goldberg-Arnold, 2004)

Essential Resources for Enhancing Parent-Child Relationships

First Feelings (Greenspan and Greenspan, 1985)

The Essential Partnership (Greenspan and Greenspan, 1989)

Essential Resources for Interpersonal Difficulties

Playground Politics (Greenspan, 1993)

Essential Resources for Anxiety

Rational Stories for Children (Waters, 1980)—cognitive distortions

Color Us Rational (Waters, 1979)—cognitive distortions

Who Invented Lemonade? (Shaw and Barzvi, 2005)—catastrophizing, pessimism

Up and Down the Worry Hill (Wagner, 2000)—OCD, 8-14

What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck (Huebner, 2007b)—OCD, 6-12

What to Do When You Grumble Too Much (Huebner, 2007a)—GAD, 6-12

Worry Wart Wes (Thompson, 2003)

When Fuzzy Was Afraid of Losing His Mother (Maier, 2005b)—SAD, 3-7

Catchin’ Cooties Consuelo (Thompson, 2004b)—hypochondriasis

Mind Over Basketball (Weierback and Phillips-Hershey, 2008)—worry/stress, 8-12

What to Do When You Worry Too Much (Huebner, 2006)—GAD, 6-12

The Lion Who Lost His Roar (Nass, 2000)—CBT for fearfulness, 6-10

The Bear Who Lost His Sleep (Lamb-Shapiro, 2000)—CBT for worries, 4-9

When Fuzzy Was Afraid of Big and Loud Things (Maier, 2005a)—sensitivity to loud sounds, 3-7

When Lizzy Was Afraid of Trying New Things (Maier, 2005c)

Feeling Scared (Berry, 1995)—identifying anxious feelings

Smoky Night (Bunting, 1994)—anxiety, trauma, minority populations

Essential Resources for Behavior Problems / ADHD

The Koala Who Wouldn’t Cooperate (Shapiro, 2006b)—CBT for noncompliance, 4-9

Loud Lips Lucy (Thompson, 2002)—self-control

Busy Body Bonita (Thompson, 2007)—ADHD

The Rabbit Who Lost His Hop (Nass, 2004)—CBT for self-control

The Penguin Who Lost Her Cool (Sobel, 2000)—anger management, 6-10

The Putting on the Brakes Activity Book for Young People with ADHD (Quinn and Stern, 1993)—ADHD, 8-13

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Viorst, 1972)—frustration tolerance

Essential Resources for Depression / Sadness

Feeling Sad (Berry, 1996)—identifying sad feelings

Essential Resources for Encopresis

It Hurts When I Poop (Bennett, 2007)—4-8

Clouds and Clocks (Galvin, 1989)—3-6

Essential Resources for Homework

Annie’s Plan (Kraus, 2006)—HW completion, 6-11

Essential Resources for Identifying Feelings

Amazing Grace (Hoffman, 1991)—African American Girls

The Feelings Book (Madison, 2002)—girls

Essential Resources for Social Skills

Mookey and Monkey Gets Over Being Teased (Lonczak, 2007)—dealing w/ teasing

Too Nice (Pellegrino, 2002)—assertiveness, 8-12

Blue Cheese Breathe and Stinky Feet (DePino, 2004)—bullying, 6-12

In Grown Tyrone (Thompson, 2004b)—coping with teasing

The Meanest Thing to Say (Cosby, 1997)—teasing, peer relationships, African American boys

Essential Resources for Social Anxiety

What You Must Think of Me (Ford, Liebowitz, and Andrews, 2007)

Essential Resources for OCD

The Thought That Counts (Kant, Franklin, and Andrews, 2008)

Essential Resources for Depression

Monochrome Days (Irwin, Evans, and Andrews, 2007)

Parent Resources / TIPS

Autism Spectrum Disorder: What Every Parent Needs to Know (Paul Carbone)

Helping You Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder (Lockshin, Gillis, and Romanczyk, 2005)

 Overcoming Autism (Koegel and LaZebnick, 2014) (Meghan highly recommends this one)

Discussing the Diagnosis

Dundon, R. (2017). Talking with your child about their autism diagnosis. A guide for parents. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Diagnosis discussion tips for parents, from the AANE, available at https://aane.org/autism-info-faqs/library/diagnosis-discussion-tips-for-parents/  

Getting started: Introducing your child to his or her diagnosis of autism, from the Indiana Resource Center for Autism, available at https://www.iidc.indiana.edu/irca/resources/learn-about-autism/getting-started-introducing-your-child-to-his-or-her-diagnosis-of-autism.html  

How to explain autism to a child or adolescent, from Attwood & Garnett Events, available at https://www.attwoodandgarnettevents.com/blogs/news/how-to-explain-autism-to-a-child-or-adolescent 

Essential Resources for Teenagers

After you receive the diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder: A resource for adolescents and adults who are newly diagnosed, from the Indiana Resource Center for Autism, available at https://www.iidc.indiana.edu/irca/doc/after-you-receive-diagnosis-adolescent.pdf  

Cook, J. (2022). The Asperkid’s (secret) book of social rules, 10th anniversary edition. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Purkis, Y., & Masterman, T. (2020). The awesome autistic go-to guide: A practical handbook for autistic teens and tweens. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Girls on the Spectrum

Are girls with autism hiding in plain sight?, from Kennedy Krieger Institute, available at https://www.kennedykrieger.org/stories/interactive-autism-network-ian/girls-autism-hiding-plain-sight?utm_source=iancommunity.org&utm_medium=redirect&utm_campaign=iancommunity.org-article  

Autism in women and girls, from the Association for Autism and Neurodiversity (AANE), available at https://aane.org/autism-info-faqs/library/autism-women-and-girls/  

Autistic Girls Network, https://autisticgirlsnetwork.org/  

Recognizing and understanding autistic girls at school, from Attwood & Garnett Events, available at https://www.attwoodandgarnettevents.com/blogs/news/recognizing-and-understanding-autistic-girls-at-school  

Autistic women and girls, from the National Autistic Society (UK), available at https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/what-is-autism/autistic-women-and-girls  

What every autistic girl wishes her parent knew, from Child Mind Institute, available at https://childmind.org/article/every-autistic-girl-wishes-parents-knew/  

Rosi – Autism and me [Video], available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejpWWP1HNGQ&t=94s  

Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network (AWN), https://awnnetwork.org/  

Books for women and girls, from Autism Awareness Centre, list available at https://autismawarenesscentre.com/product-category/women-and-girls/  

Castellon, S. (2020). The spectrum girl’s survival guide: How to grow up awesome and autistic. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN). (2021). Sincerely, your autistic child: What people on the autism spectrum wish their parents knew about growing up, acceptance, and identity. Beacon Press.

Cook O’Toole, J. (2015). Sisterhood of the spectrum. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Nichols, S. (2009). Girls growing up on the autism spectrum: What parents and professionals should know about the pre-teen and teenage years. Jessica Kingsley Publishers