Resources

At Village Parenting, we are here to provide psychotherapy and counseling to help you with life's transitions, challenges and crises. Through the years, clients have often asked for books in order to read further on their own. Below is a sampling of books we highly recommend. Whether you are looking at adult therapy for life in general, parent counseling, child therapy, play therapy, or teen therapy, we think you will find something helpful in the titles below.

FOR ADULTS

  • When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron

  • Being Perfect by Anna Quindlin

  • A Short Guide to a Happy Life by Anna Quindlin

  • Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff by Richard Carlson

  • Motherless Daughters by Hope Edelman

  • Comfortable with Uncertainty by Pema Chodron

FOR PARENTS

  • Parent Effectiveness Training by Thomas Gordon, PhD

  • Parenting from the Inside Out by Daniel J. Siegel, MD and Mary Hartzell

  • The Magic Years by Selma Fraiberg

  • How to Talk so Kids will Listen, How to Listen so Kids will Talk by A. Faber 

  • Not In Front of the Children by Lawrence Balter, PhD

  • Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by D. Kindlon and M. Thompson

  • The Difficult Child by Stanley Turecki and Leslie Tonner

  • The Challenging Child by Stanley L. Greenspan, MD

  • The Whole Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel, MD and Tina Payne Bryson, PhD

FOR CHILDREN

  • Feelings by Aliki - for young children

  • Stepping Stone Stories by Lawrence Balter

  • Herman the Helper by Robert Kraus and Jose Aruego

  • Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus and Jose Aruego

  • What’s the Big Secret?: Talking about Sex with Girls and Boys by Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown

  • What to Do When You Worry Too Much by Dawn Hubner, Ph.D.

FOR TWEENS & TEENS

  • Smart but Stuck: Emotions in Teens and Adults with ADHD by Thomas E. Brown

  • Get Out of My Life, (but first could you drive me and Cheryl to the Mall?) by Anthony E. Wolf

  • Ready, Set, Grow by Lynda Madaras

  • The Care and Keeping of You - American Girl Library

  • Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: A Book for Teens on Sex and Relationships by Ruth Bell

  • Reviving Ophelia, Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher, Ph.D.