Please refer to Addressing Bullying, Harassment & All Forms of Hate for more information about policies and procedures related to bullying and harassment.

Llama Llama and the Bully Goat

Author and/or Illustrator: Anna Dewdney (Author)

Recommended Ages: 2-5

Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

Author and/or Illustrator: Patty Lovell (Author)

Recommended Ages: 5-8

Tease Monster: A Book About Teasing vs. Bullying

Author and/or Illustrator: Julia Cook (Author), Anita DuFalla (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 5-12

The Bug Girl: A True Story

Author and/or Illustrator: Sophia Spencer (Author), Margaret McNamara (Author), Kerascoët (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 5-10

Emotional Regulation

A Little SPOT Emotional Regulation Box Set (Books 49-56: Peaceful Hands, Anger Shield, Needs Feelings, Sleep, Disappointment, Wasted Worry, Positive Thinking, and Emotion Coach)

Author and/or Illustrator: Diane Alber (Author)

Recommended Ages: 5-10

A Little SPOT of Feelings 8 Book Box Set (Book 25-32: Empathy, Frustration, Calm, Belonging, Worry, Boredom, Flexible Thinking, & Feelings Detective)

Author and/or Illustrator: Diane Alber (Author)

Recommended Ages: 5-10

In My Heart: A Book of Feelings

Author and/or Illustrator: Jo Witek (Author), Christine Roussey (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 4-7

My Body Sends a Signal: Helping Kids Recognize Emotions and Express Feelings (Resilient Kids)

Author and/or Illustrator: Natalia Maguire (Author), Anastasia Zababashkina (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 5-9

The Color Monster: A Story About Emotions

Author and/or Illustrator: Anna Llenas (Author)

Recommended Ages: 4-7

Grief & Loss

A Terrible Thing Happened

Author and/or Illustrator: Margaret M. Holmes (Author), Cary Pillo (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 5-9

Badger’s Parting Gifts

Author and/or Illustrator: Susan Varley (Author, Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 4-8

Goodbye Mousie

Author and/or Illustrator: Robie H. Harris (Author), Jan Ormerod (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 4-8

Grief is Like a Snowflake

Author and/or Illustrator: Julia Cook (Author), Anita DuFalla (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 5-14

Grief Is Like A Snowflake: Activity and Idea Guide

Author and/or Illustrator: Julia Cook (Author), Cathy Fox (Editor), Anita DuFalla (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 5-14

I Didn’t Get to Say Goodbye (Free E-Book)

Author and/or Illustrator: Rebecca C. Schmidt (Author)

Recommended Ages: 8-12

I Miss You: A First Look at Death

Author and/or Illustrator: Pat Thomas (Author), Lesley Harker (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 3-7

If Nathan Were Here

Author and/or Illustrator: Mary Bahr (Author), Karen A. Jarome (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 5-9

Kai's Journey (Free E-Book)

Author and/or Illustrator: New York Life

Recommended Ages: 8-12

Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children

Author and/or Illustrator: Bryan Mellonie (Author), Robert Ingpen (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 3-8

Not The End: A Child’s Journey Through Grief (Free E-Book)

Author and/or Illustrator: New York Life

Recommended Ages: 4-8

The Goodbye Book

Author and/or Illustrator: Todd Parr (Author)

Recommended Ages: 2-4

The Invisible String

Author and/or Illustrator: Patrice Karst (Author), Joanne Lew-Vriethoff (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 3-7

The Invisible String Workbook: Creative Activities to Comfort, Calm, and Connect

Author and/or Illustrator: Patrice Karst (Author), Dana Wyss (Author), Joanne Lew-Vriethoff (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 3-7

The Memory Box: A Book About Grief

Author and/or Illustrator: Joanna Rowland (Author), Thea Baker (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 4-9

The Memory String

Author and/or Illustrator: Eve Bunting (Author), Ted Rand (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 4-7

Tough Boris

Author and/or Illustrator: Mem Fox (Author), Kathryn Brown (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 3-6

What Does Grief Feel Like?

Author and/or Illustrator: Korie Leigh (Author), Mike Malbrough (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 3-10

What on Earth Do You Do When Someone Dies?

Author and/or Illustrator: Trevor Romain (Author), Gabby Grant (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 5-10

When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death

Author and/or Illustrator: Laurie Krasny Brown (Author), Marc Brown (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 4-7

When Someone Dies: A Children’s Mindful How-To Guide on Grief and Loss Hardcover

Author and/or Illustrator: Andrea Dorn (Author)

Recommended Ages: 4-10

When Someone You Love Has Died: Talking to Young Children About Death

Author and/or Illustrator: Stephanie Seidler (Author), Robin Katz (Editor), Berk Ozturk (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 8-12

When Something Terrible Happens: Children Can Learn to Cope with Grief

Author and/or Illustrator: Marge Heegaard (Author)

Recommended Ages: 4-8

Human Trafficking

A to Z Awareness: A Children's Guide to Preventing Human Trafficking: Understanding Human Trafficking for Kids

Author and/or Illustrator: Joy Cunnigham (Author)

Recommended Ages: 8-14

Finding Freedom: Empowering Young Survivors of Human Trafficking

Author and/or Illustrator: Rekha Sharma-Crawford (Author), QBN Studios (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 5-12

Mommy, What's a Safe House?: A True Story & Heart Conversation

Author and/or Illustrator: M.F. Renée (Author), Layken Davey (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 8-12

Mental Health

Finding Perfect

Author and/or Illustrator: Elly Swartz (Author)

Recommended Ages: 9-14

My Family Divided: One Girl's Journey of Home, Loss, and Hope

Author and/or Illustrator: Diane Guerrero (Author), Erica Moroz (Author)

Recommended Ages: 10-15

OCDaniel

Author and/or Illustrator: Wesley King (Author)

Recommended Ages: 10-15

Smaller Sister

Author and/or Illustrator: Maggie Edkins Willis (Author, Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 10-14

Teens Talk About Mental Health

Author and/or Illustrator: Angela Kim (Author), Leanne Kabat (Author), Lindsey Hyewon Lee (Author), Brian Son (Author), Chloe Sy-Perez (Author), Samantha Sy-Perez (Author), Jay Choi (Author), Cedrick Kim (Author), Aiden Jung Won Chang (Author), Yeonoo Jeong (Author), Faith Kim (Author), Daniel Kwon (Author), Daniel Youn (Author)

Description: Teens Talk About Mental Health is a powerful book written for teens by teens, with vulnerable and honest stories from high school students dealing with their struggles in today’s stress-filled post-pandemic, fast-paced, and perfectionist-focused world.

The Grip (Marcus Stroman)

Author and/or Illustrator: Marcus Stroman (Author)

Recommended Ages: 8-14

You Are Enough! Your Guide to Body Image and Eating Disorder Recovery

Author and/or Illustrator: Jen Petro-Roy (Author)

Recommended Ages: 9-14

Parenting & Healthy Relationships

Enemy Pie

Author and/or Illustrator: Derek Munson (Author)

Recommended Ages: 6-10

My Way to Making Friends: Children’s Book about Friendship, Inclusion and Social Skills (Kids Feelings)

Author and/or Illustrator: Elizabeth Cole (Author)

Recommended Ages: 4-12

The Not-So-Friendly Friend: How To Set Boundaries for Healthy Friendships

Author and/or Illustrator: Christina Furnival (Author), Katie Dwyer (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 5-10

Substance Use

Buzz to Buzzkill: How Alcohol and Dopamine Hack Your Brain

Author and/or Illustrator: Annie Grace (Author), Mary Purdie (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 12-18

Floating Away: A Book to Help Children Understand Addiction

Author and/or Illustrator: Andrew J. Bauman (Author), Wahyu Nugroho (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 8-14

Hey, Kiddo: A Graphic Novel

Author and/or Illustrator: Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Author)

Recommended Ages: 11-16

Suicide Prevention & Nonsuicidal Self-Injury (NSSI)

After a Suicide Death: An Activity Book for Kids Who are Grieving

Author and/or Illustrator: Dougy Center

Description: In this hands-on, interactive activity book, children who have experienced a suicide death in their family can learn from other grieving kids. The activity book includes drawing activities, puzzles, stories, advice from other kids and helpful suggestions for how to navigate the grief process after a suicide death.

Can I Tell You About Self-Harm?

Author and/or Illustrator: Pooky Knightsmith (Author)

Recommended Ages: 10-16

Description: The latest in the best-selling Can I Tell You About... series describes what self-harm is, along with the wide range of behaviors that qualify, why teens do it, and how to get help if you feel the need to self-harm. Reflecting on the different aspects of self-harming behavior, including treatment of injuries and scars, this concise introduction dispels common myths and offers helpful resources to break the cycle of self-harm.

Overcoming Suicidal Thoughts for Teens: CBT Activities to Reduce Pain, Increase Hope, and Build Meaningful Connections

Author and/or Illustrator: Jeremy W. Pettit PhD (Author), Ryan M. Hill PhD (Author)

Description: If you’re a teen who is having thoughts of suicide, the first thing to know is that you are not alone. Many teens experience suicidal thoughts, and there is help for you. Don’t give up: change is possible, and it’s worth it—you are worth it. Written by two mental health experts, Overcoming Suicidal Thoughts for Teens is here to help you reduce emotional pain, increase hope, and build meaningful connections in your life.

Teen Dating Violence

Can't Date You Anymore: Strategic Ways to Tackle Teen Dating Violence

Author and/or Illustrator: I. Nora U (Author)

Recommended Ages: 12-18

In Love and In Danger: A Teen's Guide to Breaking Free of Abusive Relationships

Author and/or Illustrator: Barrie Levy (Author)

Recommended Ages: 12-18

Tornado Warning: A Memoir of Teen Dating Violence and Its Effect on a Woman's Life

Author and/or Illustrator: Elin Stebbins Waldal (Author), Jessica Weiner (Foreword)

Recommended Ages: 12-18

Trauma

A Terrible Thing Happened

Author and/or Illustrator: Margaret M. Holmes (Author), Cary Pillo (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 5-9

A Terrible Thing Happened: A Story for Children Who Have Witnessed Violence or Trauma

Author and/or Illustrator: Margaret M. Holmes (Author), Cary Pillo (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 5-19

Delly Duck: Why A Little Chick Couldn’t Stay With His Birth Mother

Author and/or Illustrator: Holly Marlow (Author), Suzy Garland (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 2-11

Healing Days

Author and/or Illustrator: Susan Farber Straus PhD (Author), Maria Bogade (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 6-11

Jenny Is Scared: When Sad Things Happen in the World

Author and/or Illustrator: Carol Shuman (Author), Cary Pillo (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 4-8

Once I Was Very Very Scared

Author and/or Illustrator: Chandra Ghosh Ippen (Author), Erich Peter Ippen jr. (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 4-7

Something Bad Happened

Author and/or Illustrator: Dawn Huebner (Author)

Recommended Ages: 6-12

The Invisible String

Author and/or Illustrator: Patrice Karst (Author), Joanne Lew-Vriethoff (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 3-7

The Runaway Bunny

Author and/or Illustrator: Margaret Wise Brown (Author), Clement Hurd (Illustrator)

Recommended Ages: 1-4

Parents & Caregivers

ADHD & Behavioral Disorders

Smart but Scattered Teens: The "Executive Skills" Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential

Author(s): Richard Guare (Author), Peg Dawson (Author), Colin Guare (Author)

Description: If you're the parent of a "smart but scattered" teen, trying to help him or her grow into a self-sufficient, responsible adult may feel like a never-ending battle. Now you have an alternative to micromanaging, cajoling, or ineffective punishments. This positive guide provides a science-based program for promoting teens' independence by building their executive skills--the fundamental brain-based abilities needed to get organized, stay focused, and control impulses and emotions.

Taking Charge of ADHD: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents

Author(s): Russell A. Barkley (Author)

Description: A guide to: Understand why kids with ADHD act the way they do, get an accurate diagnosis, work with school and health care professionals to find needed support, implement a proven eight-step behavior management plan, build your child's academic and social skills, restore harmony at home.

The Explosive Child [Sixth Edition]: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children

Author(s): Ross W Greene PhD (Author)

Description: Now in a revised and updated 6th edition, the groundbreaking, research-based approach to understanding and parenting children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper and other challenging behaviors, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the field.

Anxiety & Depression

Growing Up Brave: Expert Strategies for Helping Your Child Overcome Fear, Stress, and Anxiety

Author(s): Donna B. Pincus (Author)

Description: In Growing Up Brave, Dr. Pincus helps parents identify and understand anxiety in their children, outlines effective and convenient parenting techniques for reducing anxiety, and shows parents how to promote bravery for long-term confidence. From trouble sleeping and separation anxiety to social anxiety or panic attacks, Growing Up Brave provides an essential toolkit for instilling happiness and confidence for childhood and beyond.

Helping Your Anxious Teen: Positive Parenting Strategies to Help Your Teen Beat Anxiety, Stress, and Worry

Author(s): Sheila Achar Josephs, PhD (Author)

Description: This powerful book, based on cutting-edge research and cognitive behavioral strategies, will help you develop the know-how to effectively manage teen anxiety. You’ll learn the best ways to support your teen in overcoming problematic thinking and fears, discover what behaviors and coping strategies unwittingly make anxiety worse, and understand how anxiety is best defeated with surprisingly counterintuitive methods.

Parenting Anxious Kids: Understanding Anxiety in Children by Age and Stage

Author(s): Regine Galanti, PhD (Author)

Description: Utilizing clinically proven cognitive behavioral therapy techniques, Parenting Anxious Kids provides parents with the tools they need to support their children without asking them to become their kids' therapist. Author and clinical psychologist Regine Galanti guides parents to help their children grow into resilient, independent, and healthy adults.

Autism

Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew

Author(s): Ellen Notbohm (Author), Veronica Zysk (Editor)

Description: Framed with both humor and compassion, the book lists the top ten characteristics that help illuminate—not define—children with autism. Ellen's personal experiences as a parent, an autism columnist, and a contributor to numerous parenting magazines coalesce to create this guide for anyone with someone on the autism spectrum in their life. (There is also an edition of this book available in Spanish)

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

Author(s): Naoki Higashida (Author), KA Yoshida (Translator), David Mitchell (Translator)

Description: Using an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct words, sentences, and thoughts that he is unable to speak out loud, Naoki answers even the most delicate questions that people want to know. Questions such as: “Why do people with autism talk so loudly and weirdly?” “Why do you line up your toy cars and blocks?” “Why don’t you make eye contact when you’re talking?” and “What’s the reason you jump?” (Naoki’s answer: “When I’m jumping, it’s as if my feelings are going upward to the sky.”) With disarming honesty and a generous heart, Naoki shares his unique point of view on not only autism but life itself. His insights—into the mystery of words, the wonders of laughter, and the elusiveness of memory—are so startling, so strange, and so powerful that you will never look at the world the same way again.

Uniquely Human: Updated and Expanded: A Different Way of Seeing Autism

Author(s): Barry M. Prizant Ph.D. (Author), Tom Fields-Meyer

Description: A groundbreaking book on autism, by one of the world’s leading experts, who portrays autism as a unique way of being human.

Bullying & Cyberbullying

Please refer to Addressing Bullying, Harassment & All Forms of Hate for more information about policies and procedures related to bullying and harassment.

Bullied: What Every Parent, Teacher, and Kid Needs to Know About Ending the Cycle of Fear

Author(s): Carrie Goldman (Author)

Description: Written in Goldman’s warm, engaging style, Bullied is an important and very necessary read for parents, educators, self-professed “Girl Geeks,” or anyone who has ever felt victimized by a bully, online or in person.

UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World

Author(s): Dr. Michele Borba (Author)

Description: In UnSelfie, Dr. Borba pinpoints the forces causing the empathy crisis and shares a revolutionary, researched-based, nine-step plan for reversing it.

Digital Media

Digital for Good: Raising Kids to Thrive in an Online World

Author(s): Richard Culatta (Author)

Description: In Digital for Good, EdTech expert Richard Culatta argues that technology can be a powerful tool for learning, solving humanity's toughest problems, and bringing us closer together. He offers a refreshingly positive framework for preparing kids to be successful in a digital world ― one that encourages them to use technology proactively and productively ― by outlining five qualities every young person should develop in order to become a thriving, contributing digital citizen.

Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World

Author(s): Devorah Heitner (Author)

Description: With relatable stories and research-backed advice, Growing Up in Public empowers parents to cut through the overwhelm to connect with their kids, recognize how to support them, and help them figure out who they are when everyone is watching.

Raising Humans in a Digital World: Helping Kids Build a Healthy Relationship with Technology

Author(s): Diana Graber (Author), Michele Borba (Foreword)

Description: In Raising Humans in a Digital World, digital literacy educator Diana Graber shows how children must learn to handle the digital space.

The Screentime Solution: A Judgment-Free Guide to Becoming a Tech-Intentional Family

Author(s): Emily Cherkin (Author)

Description: In The Screentime Solution, Emily teaches parents to become “tech-intentional”: using screen-based technologies to enhance, nurture, and align with family values while avoiding, delaying, or limiting screentime that interferes with healthy mental, physical, cognitive, and emotional development.

Emotional Regulation

Relationship, Responsibility, and Regulation: Trauma-Invested Practices for Fostering Resilient Learners

Author(s): Kristin Van Marter Souers (Author), Pete Hall (Author)

Description: In this stirring follow-up to the award-winning Fostering Resilient Learners, Kristin Van Marter Souers and Pete Hall take you to the next level of trauma-invested practice. To get there, they explain, educators need to build a "nest"—a positive learning environment shaped by three new Rs of education: relationship, responsibility, and regulation.

The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

Author(s): Daniel J. Siegel M.D. (Author), Tina Payne Bryson (Author)

Description: In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson offer a revolutionary approach to child-rearing with twelve key strategies that foster healthy brain development, leading to calmer, happier children.

Tiny Humans, Big Emotions: How to Navigate Tantrums, Meltdowns, and Defiance to Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children

Author(s): Alyssa Blask Campbell (Author), Lauren Elizabeth Stauble (Author)

Description: From two early childhood experts, an essential guidebook that empowers parents to help their little ones navigate their big feelings—including tantrums, outbursts, and separation anxiety—while laying the groundwork for a lifetime of emotional intelligence.

Grief & Loss

A Parent's Guide to Managing Childhood Grief: 100 Activities for Coping, Comforting, & Overcoming Sadness, Fear, & Loss

Author(s): Katie Lear (Author)

Description: In A Parent’s Guide to Managing Grief, you’ll learn everything you need to know about how children grieve and what you can do to support them during their most difficult moments. From there, you’ll find 100 activities that you can use in a group setting, activities that you (or another caregiver) can do alone with your child, and ways to make the most of virtual interactions to support a grieving child.

A Parent's Guide to Raising Grieving Children: Rebuilding Your Family after the Death of a Loved One

Author(s): Phyllis R. Silverman (Author), Madelyn Kelly (Author)

Description: Filled with compassion and common sense, A Parent's Guide to Raising Grieving Children: Rebuilding Your Family after the Loss of a Loved One offers readers a wealth of solace and sound advice, and even--where one might least expect it--a measure of hope.

The Memory Box: A Book About Grief

Author(s): Joanna Rowland (Author), Thea Baker (Illustrator)

Description: A perfect companion to this book is The Memory Book: A Grief Journal for Children and Families that helps children record stories, memories, and feelings as an honoring keepsake to be cherished for years to come.

Human Trafficking

Call to Freedom: A Parent's Guide to Understanding Human Trafficking and Healing Their Children

Author(s): Becky Rasmussen Simmons (Author), Ruth Atkins (Author), Mary Jackson (Author)

Description: A Parent’s Guide to Understanding Human Trafficking and Healing Their Children clearly explains important concepts and topics including what makes a child more at risk, the basic stages of grooming, complex trauma, triggers and flashbacks, trauma bond and dissociative identity disorder as well as what to expect on the healing journey, knowing that each journey is unique.

Human Trafficking 101: Stories, Stats, and Solutions

Author(s): Amy Joy, BSW, MPA (Author)

Description: Through this book, you will discover the dynamics of human trafficking and how to appropriately respond. You will also get real-life examples of human trafficking, in its different forms, and easy-to-implement solutions for individuals, families, groups, and communities.

In Our Backyard: Human Trafficking in America and What We Can Do to Stop It

Author(s): Nita Belles (Author)

Description: Through true stories and years of boots-on-the-ground experience, including at the Super Bowl, anti-trafficking expert Nita Belles teaches readers everything they need to know about human trafficking in the United States and what they can do to join the fight against it.

Mental Health

Teens Talk About Mental Health

Author(s): Angela Kim (Author), Leanne Kabat (Author), Lindsey Hyewon Lee (Author), Brian Son (Author), Chloe Sy-Perez (Author), Samantha Sy-Perez (Author), Jay Choi (Author), Cedrick Kim (Author), Aiden Jung Won Chang (Author), Yeonoo Jeong (Author), Faith Kim (Author), Daniel Kwon (Author), Daniel Youn (Author)

Description: Teens Talk About Mental Health is a powerful book written for teens by teens, with vulnerable and honest stories from high school students dealing with their struggles in today’s stress-filled post-pandemic, fast-paced, and perfectionist-focused world.

The Family Guide to Mental Health Care

Author(s): Lloyd I. Sederer MD (Author), Glenn Close (Foreword)

Description: The Family Guide to Mental Health Care is the first comprehensive print resource for the millions of people who have loved ones suffering from some kind of mental illness. In this book, families can find the answers to their most urgent questions. What medications are helpful and are some as dangerous as I think? Is there a way to navigate privacy laws so I can discuss my adult daughter’s treatment with her doctor? Is my teenager experiencing typical adolescent distress or an illness? From understanding depression, bipolar illness and anxiety to eating and traumatic disorders, schizophrenia, and much more, readers will learn what to do and how to help.

The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

Author(s): Daniel J. Siegel M.D. (Author), Tina Payne Bryson (Author)

Description: In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson offer a revolutionary approach to child rearing with twelve key strategies that foster healthy brain development, leading to calmer, happier children.

Parenting & Healthy Relationships

No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

Author(s): Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. (Author), Tina Payne Bryson (Author)

Description: Highlighting the fascinating link between a child’s neurological development and the way a parent reacts to misbehavior, No-Drama Discipline provides an effective, compassionate road map for dealing with tantrums, tensions, and tears—without causing a scene.

Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids

Author(s): Hunter Clarke-Fields, MSAE (Author), Carla Naumburg, PhD (Foreword)

Description: With this book, you’ll find powerful mindfulness skills for calming your own stress response when difficult emotions arise. You’ll also discover strategies for cultivating respectful communication, effective conflict resolution, and reflective listening.

The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

Author(s): Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. (Author), Tina Payne Bryson (Author)

Description: In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson offer a revolutionary approach to child rearing with twelve key strategies that foster healthy brain development, leading to calmer, happier children.

Substance Use

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

Author(s): David Sheff (Author)

Description: Before Nic became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole, and lived on the streets. David Sheff traces the first warning signs: the denial, the three a.m. phone calls—is it Nic? the police? the hospital? His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself. But as a journalist, he instinctively researched every treatment that might save his son. And he refused to give up on Nic.

High: Everything You Want to Know About Drugs, Alcohol, and Addiction

Author(s): David Sheff (Author), Nic Sheff (Author)

Description: This book tells it as it is, with testimonials from peers who have been there and families who have lived through the addiction of a loved one, along with the cold, hard facts about what drugs and alcohol do to our bodies. From how to navigate peer pressure to outlets for stress to the potential consequences of experimenting, Nic and David Sheff lay out the facts so that middle grade readers can educate themselves.

It Will Never Happen to Me: Growing Up with Addiction as Youngsters, Adolescents, and Adults

Author(s): Claudia Black, PhD (Author)

Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines

Author(s): Nic Sheff (Author)

Description: Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise. In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. As we watch Nic plunge into the mental and physical depths of drug addiction, he paints a picture for us of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. It's a harrowing portrait—but not one without hope.

Suicide Prevention & Nonsuicidal Self-Injury (NSSI)

Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

Author(s): Kay Redfield Jamison (Author)

Description: Weaving together a psychological and scientific exploration of the subject with personal essays about individual suicides, Dr. Jamison in this book brings not only her compassion and literary skill, but all of her knowledge, research and clinical experience to bear on this devastating problem.

Ryan's Story: A Father’s Hard-Earned Lessons about Cyberbullying and Suicide

Author(s): John P. Halligan (Author), Emily B. Dickson (Author)

Saving Ourselves from Suicide - Before and After: How to Ask for Help, Recognize Warning Signs, and Navigate Grief

Author(s): Linda Pacha (Author)

Description: A caring, up-close look at suicide with Prevention and Grief in one best-selling book. Why? They relate more than you realize. Considering how loved ones would grieve might be what keeps someone here. Likewise, grief can become so intense that prevention tools are needed to keep safe those left behind. With a detailed table of contents and bulleted lists, you will use this resource again and again.

Teen Dating Violence

Can't Date You Anymore: Strategic Ways to Tackle Teen Dating Violence

Author(s): I. Nora U (Author)

Description: This book is intended for parents, teachers, and other adults who are interested in raising awareness and preventing teen dating violence. It is also for teens and young adults who may be at risk of experiencing or perpetrating teen dating violence. The goal of this book is to provide readers with the knowledge and resources necessary for preventing and addressing teen dating violence in their own lives or in the lives of those around them.

It Doesn't Start with a Punch: My Journey through an Abusive Teen Dating Relationship

Author(s): Dee Dee Said (Author)

Description: An intimate, practical guide to helping adolescents avoid or escape abusive dating relationships, including steps toward recovery, healing, and forgiveness.

When Dating Hurts

Author(s): Bill Mitchell (Author)

Description: Besides detailing a tragedy, this book offers sound advice gained from domestic violence counselors, law enforcement professionals, and actual dating violence survivors.

Trauma

Healing Child Trauma Through Restorative Parenting

Author(s): Chris Robinson (Author), Terry Philpot

Description: Healing Child Trauma Through Restorative Parenting details how children can be helped to recover with the use of Restorative Parenting, an innovative model informed by psychological and neurological understanding of trauma and its effects. It explains the critical role that people, relationships and the environment play in a child's recovery.

Trauma-Sensitive Parenting: Nurturing Safety, Resilience, And Healthy Bonds Within And Beyond The Home

Author(s): Jennifer Alushan (Author)

Description: Learning ways to cultivate trauma sensitivity can make a difference in the way a child interacts with you and others. With a bachelor's and master's degree in education and over 30 years of experience, plus training in trauma sensitivity, author and mother of two, Jennifer Alushan, is ready to give parents and caregivers proven techniques to effectively understand and authentically interact with children so the healing process can begin.

Untangled: A Go-To Guide for Caregivers of Traumatized Children, Families, and Communities

Author(s): Omar Reda (Author)

Description: If you are a parent or caregiver whose children have been traumatized by events like war, forced displacement, disaster, abuse, neglect, or violence, this book is for you. This book will increase your understanding about your empowering role, what your children need, how they develop, how trauma interrupts their development, how to show your children healing love and attention, and how to use community resources to achieve that. It will also suggest ways to take care of yourself in the process.

Educators

ADHD & Behavioral Disorders

Managing ADHD in School: The Best Evidence-Based Methods for Teachers

Author(s): Russell Barkley (Author)

Description: Dr. Russell Barkley, internationally respected expert on ADHD, draws on his 40 years of clinical work with thousands of students, teachers and schools to create a definitive resource for the most effective methods in overcoming impairments for children and teens with ADHD.

Taking Charge of ADHD in the Classroom: The Educator's Guide to Effective Teaching Strategies, Behavioral Interventions, and Collaborative Approaches

Author(s): Katie Wright (Author)

Description: This comprehensive guide offers a treasure trove of practical, evidence-based strategies to transform the classroom experience for students with ADHD. With step-by-step instructions and real-world examples, this book equips teachers with the tools to create a nurturing and structured environment that fosters understanding, empathy, and support.

The ADD / ADHD Checklist: A Practical Reference for Parents and Teachers

Author(s): Sandra F. Rief (Author)

Description: The ADD/ADHD Checklist helps parents and teachers to better understand children and teenagers with attention problems and provide the kind of support and intervention that is crucial to kids' success.

Anxiety & Depression

Effective Teaching for Anxious Learners: Seen, Safe and Supported

Author(s): Lilian Surgeson (Author)

Description: This book explores the relationship between anxiety and common classroom problems such as unhelpful behaviour, work avoidance and learning loss. It promotes the philosophy that it is a teacher's role to 'support not fix' learners with anxiety and other mental health concerns by adopting effective pedagogical strategies.

Helping Children Manage Anxiety at School: A Guide for Parents and Educators in Supporting the Positive Mental Health of Children in Schools

Author(s): Colleen Wildenhaus (Author)

Description: As the rate of children with anxiety climbs steadily, teachers and parents need ways to help children manage their anxiety while at school. In Helping Children Manage Anxiety at School, author Colleen Wildenhaus uses her experience as a parent and teacher to help parents and teachers understand anxiety, create a classroom environment that supports positive mental health, and offers a guide for creating a plan for the anxious child.

Working with Students Who Have Anxiety: Creative Connections and Practical Strategies

Author(s): Beverley H. Johns (Author), Donalyn Heise (Author), Adrienne D. Hunter (Author)

Description: As the number of students with anxiety increases in schools and classrooms, this book serves as the go-to guide for teachers and educators who strive to provide a welcoming environment conducive to students’ learning. Working with Students Who Have Anxiety provides an accessible understanding of anxiety in its various forms, how anxiety impacts academic and social skills, and what teachers can do to create a positive climate.

Autism

Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew

Author(s): Ellen Notbohm (Author), Veronica Zysk (Editor)

The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Differently Wired Brain

Author(s): Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D. (Author)

Description: Bestselling author, psychologist, and educator Thomas Armstrong illuminates a new understanding of neuropsychological disorders. He argues that if they are a part of the natural diversity of the human brain, they cannot simply be defined as illnesses. Armstrong explores the evolutionary advantages, special skills, and other positive dimensions of these conditions.

Uniquely Human: Updated and Expanded: A Different Way of Seeing Autism

Author(s): Barry M. Prizant, Ph.D. (Author), Tom Fields-Meyer

Description: A groundbreaking book on autism, by one of the world’s leading experts, who portrays autism as a unique way of being human.

Bullying & Cyberbullying

Please refer to Addressing Bullying, Harassment & All Forms of Hate for more information about policies and procedures related to bullying and harassment.

Bullied: What Every Parent, Teacher, and Kid Needs to Know About Ending the Cycle of Fear

Author(s): Carrie Goldman (Author)

The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander: From Preschool to High School, How Parents and Teachers Can Help Break the Cycle of Violence

Author(s): Barbara Coloroso (Author)

Description: Bestselling author and parenting educator Barbara Coloroso explains the phenomenon of bullying and the explosive proportions it has reached in our society, explaining what parents and other caregivers can do to recognise and help bullies and their victims before the violence becomes entrenched or tragically escalates.

Digital Media

Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World

Author(s): Devorah Heitner (Author)

Raising Humans in a Digital World: Helping Kids Build a Healthy Relationship with Technology

Author(s): Diana Graber (Author), Michele Borba (Foreword)

Description: In Raising Humans in a Digital World, digital literacy educator Diana Graber shows how children must learn to handle the digital space

Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital World

Author(s): Devorah Heitner (Author)

Description: Screenwise is a guide to understanding what it is like for children to grow up with technology, and to recognizing the special challenges--and advantages--that contemporary kids and teens experience thanks to this level of connection.

Emotional Regulation

A Little SPOT of Feelings and Emotions Educator's Guide (Inspire to Create A Better You!)

Author(s): Diane Alber (Author)

Description: We’ve heard from numerous educators that they sometimes feel like they are on an island with very little help in sight. That is why we created this educator guide. We spent months talking with teachers, counselors, and homeschool parents, and listening to what they would need to make teaching EMOTIONS both educational and fun.

SEL for Teachers: A Journal of Social Emotional Learning

Author(s): Emilie Day Correa, Ed. D. (Author)

Description: SEL for Teachers takes a learn-by-doing approach intended for teachers to experience the “what” of SEL so they genuinely understand the "why" and “how" of SEL. According to experts in the field such as Dr. Emilie Correa, schools maximize the potential of SEL when they focus on SEL for teachers. Dr. Correa contends that we need to go beyond the notion of SEL as a standards-based curriculum for students, and reconceptualize SEL as a way of being, thinking, doing, acting, and interacting.

Social-Emotional Learning and the Brain: Strategies to Help Your Students Thrive

Author(s): Marilee Sprenger (Author)

Description: Spurred by her personal experience and extensive exploration of brain-based learning, author Marilee Sprenger explains how brain science—what we know about how the brain works—can be applied to social-emotional learning.

The Teacher Toolbox for a Calm and Connected Classroom

Author(s): Joanna Schwartz (Author)

Description: The Teacher Toolbox for a Calm and Connected Classroom is a whole-child, whole-hearted approach to teaching, wellness, and student--teacher relationships.

Grief & Loss

Grief and Growth: A Manual for Educators and Counselors

Author(s): Wendy H. Davenson (Author)

Description: This manual takes the reader through the process of loss and grief, teaching the concepts of growth and healing as integral parts of the journey of grief. It offers information and suggestions for working with the bereaved child or adult in school, hospital, mental health, or family settings.

Grief and Loss in Schools: A Resource for Teachers

Author(s): Hazel Edwards (Author)

Description: Grief and Loss in Schools aims to support teachers and schools by providing discussion topics, play scripts and engaging activities to allow students to work through thoughts and feelings they may be having.

The Grieving Student: A Guide for Schools

Author(s): David J. Schonfeld, M.D. (Author), Marcia Quackenbush, M.S. MFT MCHES (Author), Mr. Robert W Runcie (Foreword)

Description: With the second edition of this bestselling book, school staff will have the practical guidance they need to provide sensitive support to students of all ages and their families.

Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking 101: Stories, Stats, and Solutions

Author(s): Amy Joy, BSW, MPA (Author)

Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight

Author(s): Stephanie Hepburn (Author), Rita Simon (Author)

Description: Combining statistical data with intimate accounts and interviews, journalist Stephanie Hepburn and justice scholar Rita J. Simon create a dynamic volume sure to educate and spur action.

In Our Backyard: Human Trafficking in America and What We Can Do to Stop It

Author(s): Nita Belles (Author)

Mental Health

Educator Wellness: A Guide for Sustaining Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Social Well-Being

Author(s): Timothy D. Kanold (Author), Tina H. Boogren (Author)

Description: Educator and teacher wellness is a personal journey. And like all journeys, there are starts, stops, and bumps in the road. The question becomes, how do we bring our best selves to our students and colleagues each day? Designed as a reflective journal and guidebook, Educator Wellness by Timothy D. Kanold and Tina H. Boogren will take you on a deep exploration where you will uncover profound answers that ring true for you.

Student Mental Health: A Guide For Teachers, School and District Leaders, School Psychologists and Nurses, Social Workers, Counselors, and Parents

Author(s): William Dikel MD (Author)

Description: William Dikel, MD, a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist, provides a comprehensive, educator-focused guide to student mental health. This practical book provides essential information on how mental health disorders are diagnosed and treated, how they tend to manifest at school, how they affect students’ emotions, behaviors, and ability to learn, and the types of interventions that are most successful.

The Teacher Toolbox for a Calm and Connected Classroom

Author(s): Joanna Schwartz (Author)

Description: The Teacher Toolbox for a Calm and Connected Classroom is a whole-child, whole-hearted approach to teaching, wellness, and student--teacher relationships.

Parenting & Healthy Relationships

Connections Over Compliance: Rewiring Our Perceptions of Discipline

Author(s): Lori L. Desautels (Author)

Description: In this accessible book, Dr. Desautels provides tools and exercises to restructure the classroom environment to effectively meet the needs of the most vulnerable and behaviorally reactive children to feel safe in the classroom and to leverage these feelings into cognitive and social successes.

From Behaving to Belonging: The Inclusive Art of Supporting Students Who Challenge Us

Author(s): Julie Causton (Author), Kate MacLeod (Author)

Description: In From Behaving to Belonging, Julie Causton and Kate MacLeod detail how teachers can shift from a "behavior management" mindset (that punishes students for "bad" behavior or rewards students for "good" or "compliant" behavior) to an approach that supports all students—even the most challenging ones—with kindness, creativity, acceptance, and love.

Relationship, Responsibility, and Regulation: Trauma-Invested Practices for Fostering Resilient Learners

Author(s): Kristin Van Marter Souers (Author), Pete Hall (Author)

Description: In this stirring follow-up to the award-winning Fostering Resilient Learners, Kristin Van Marter Souers and Pete Hall take you to the next level of trauma-invested practice. To get there, they explain, educators need to build a ""nest""—a positive learning environment shaped by three new Rs of education: relationship, responsibility, and regulation.

Substance Use

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

Author(s): David Sheff (Author)

High: Everything You Want to Know About Drugs, Alcohol, and Addiction

Author(s): David Sheff (Author), Nic Sheff (Author)

Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines

Author(s): Nic Sheff (Author)

Suicide Prevention & Nonsuicidal Self-Injury (NSSI)

A Culture of Caring: A Suicide Prevention Guide for Schools (K–12)

Author(s): Dr. Prentice Chandler (Author)

Description: As awareness grows about the alarming increase in youth suicide rates, school leaders need information on suicide prevention and postvention. Tragically, the search often begins only after the school community has suffered the loss of a student. Schools must start to be proactive and educate themselves about risk factors and prevention strategies.

Answering the Cry for Help: A Suicide Prevention Manual for Schools and Communities

Author(s): David A. Opalewski (Author)

Emotionally Naked: A Teacher's Guide to Preventing Suicide and Recognizing Students at Risk

Author(s): Anne Moss Rogers (Author), Kimberly H. McManama O'Brien (Author)

Description: In Emotionally Naked: A Teacher's Guide to Preventing Suicide and Recognizing Students at Risk, trainer, speaker, and suicide loss survivor Anne Moss Rogers, and clinical social worker and researcher, Kimberly O'Brien, PhD, LICSW, empower middle and high school educators with the knowledge and skills to leverage their relationships with students to reduce this threat to life.

Teen Dating Violence

Can't Date You Anymore: Strategic Ways to Tackle Teen Dating Violence

Author(s): I. Nora U (Author)

The Teen Relationship Workbook: For Professionals Helping Teens to Develop Healthy Relationships and Prevent Domestic Violence

Author(s): Kerry Moles (Author), Amy L. Leutenberg-Brodsky (Illustrator)

Description: This workbook for professionals helps adolescents develop healthy relationships and prevent dating abuse and domestic violence.

When Dating Hurts

Author(s): Bill Mitchell (Author)

Description: Besides detailing a tragedy, this book offers sound advice gained from domestic violence counselors, law enforcement professionals, and actual dating violence survivors.

Trauma

Relationship, Responsibility, and Regulation: Trauma-Invested Practices for Fostering Resilient Learners

Author(s): Kristin Van Marter Souers (Author), Pete Hall (Author)

Description: In this stirring follow-up to the award-winning Fostering Resilient Learners, Kristin Van Marter Souers and Pete Hall take you to the next level of trauma-invested practice. To get there, they explain, educators need to build a ""nest""—a positive learning environment shaped by three new Rs of education: relationship, responsibility, and regulation.

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Author(s): Bessel van der Kolk M.D. (Author)

Description: Dr. van der Kolk explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing

Author(s): Bruce D. Perry (Author), Maia Szalavitz (Author)

Description: Child psychiatrist Dr. Bruce D. Perry has helped children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, murder witnesses, kidnapped teenagers, and victims of family violence. In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry tells their stories of trauma and transformation and shares their lessons of courage, humanity, and hope.

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