Books we Recommend (Links will open a new browser window)
 

	Assertive Discipline for Parents, by Lee & Marlene Canter. This book can help teach parents develop effective tools for disciplining modern children & teens.
	The Explosive Child:  A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, 'Chronically Inflexible' Children, by Ross Greene, Ph.D.
	Kissing Doorknobs, by Terry Spencer Hesser. Written at the young adult level. Enjoyable & easy to read. Provides an account of what it is like to live with Obsessive Compulsive disorder (OCD). Also provides current diagnostic and treatment information. Helpful for individuals with OCD & people in their support systems.
	Mom's House, Dad's House:  A Complete Guide for Parents who are Separated, Divorced, or Remarried, by Isolina, Ricci, Ph.D.
	Parenting with Love & Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility, by Foster Cline, MD & Jim Fay. A parent's guide for helping children become responsible for their behaviors through consistent limit setting plus natural & logical consequences.
	Parenting Teens with Love & Logic: Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood, by Foster Cline, MD & Jim Fay. A parent's guide for helping teens learn responsibility & the importance of appropriate choices.
	Raising Children you can Live With: A Guide for Frustrated Parents, by Jamie Raser, LMSW-ACP, LMFT. A Houston Marriage & Family Therapist writes about parenting without power struggles.
	The Secret Language of Eating Disorders, by Peggy Claude-Pierre.  Peggy Claude-Pierre's daughters suffered from eating disorders.  She became a psychotherapist, and eventually opened the world famous Montreaux Clinic.  This book chronicles what she learned at every step along the way!
	Teaching Your Children Values, by Linda & Richard Eyre. Practical parenting interventions to improve self esteem in children as well as techniques to foster honesty, courage, self reliance, self discipline, respect, love, sensitivity, kindness & much more. A wonderful parenting resource.
	Transforming the Difficult Child:  The Nurtured Heart Approach, by Howard Glasser and Jennifer Easley.  Provides creative, powerful, and effective guidelines for helping transform even very difficult children in entirely positive ways.

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