Book Library |
Category: |
|
Brain |
Title: |
|
Mapping the Mind |
Author: |
|
Rita Carter |
Year: |
|
1999 |
Target Audience: |
|
All |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
In this book -- the first visual guide to the brain -- Rita Carter draws on the latest imaging techniques to give extraordinary and accessible insights into how the brain works.
|
Category: |
|
Alcohol |
Title: |
|
From Binge to Blackout: A Mother and Son Struggle with Teen Drinking |
Author: |
|
Volkmann, Chris and Toren Volkmann |
Year: |
|
2006 |
Target Audience: |
|
All |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
Throughout his college years, Toren Volkmann partied like there was no tomorrow, having what was supposed to be the time of his life. Like so many parents, his mother, Chris, overlooked Toren's growing alcohol problem. But when he graduated, Toren realized that he had become a full-blown alcoholic. And he was not alone. Considered a rite of passage, teenage drinking has skyrocketed to epidemic proportions, fostering a generation of young adults whose lives are already beginning to come apart under the strain of alcoholism. This book, written from the viewpoints of both mother and son, is a riveting, enlightening, and heartbreakingly true story of a family able to confront the fear, pain, and denial that threatened to destroy them--and survive the epidemic of teenage drinking that's putting America's future at risk.
|
Category: |
|
Brain |
Title: |
|
Change Your Brain Change Your Life |
Author: |
|
Daniel Amen |
Year: |
|
1998 |
Target Audience: |
|
All |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
The breakthrough program for conquering anxiety, depression, obsessiveness, anger and impulsiveness
|
Category: |
|
Parenting |
Title: |
|
Birth of a Family: A Preparation for Parenthood |
Author: |
|
Isbister, Clair |
Year: |
|
1978 |
Target Audience: |
|
Parents |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
It is the testament of an authoritative yet caring person…whose humorous asides, interweavings of poetry and philosophy, signify enjoyment and understanding of people. Recommended for the philosophy of parenting.
|
Category: |
|
Drugs |
Title: |
|
Beyond The Yellow Brick Road: Our Children and Drugs |
Author: |
|
Bob Meehan |
Year: |
|
2000 |
Target Audience: |
|
Parents |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
Every loving parent must read this book! If you have a child on drugs or you wish to prevent future disaster; this powerful classic can help you save your kid's life.
|
Category: |
|
Drugs |
Title: |
|
From Chocolate to Morphine |
Author: |
|
Andrew Weil & Winifred Rosen |
Year: |
|
1993 |
Target Audience: |
|
All |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
Everything you need to know about mind-altering drugs
|
Category: |
|
Guide |
Title: |
|
Last Child In The Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit |
Author: |
|
Richard Louv |
Year: |
|
2005 |
Target Audience: |
|
Parents, Teacher |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
Our children are the first generation to be raised without meaningful contact with the natural world. Louv provides insight on what it's doing to our children, and savvy advice about how to restore the age-old relationship between people and the rest of the planet.
|
Category: |
|
Alcohol |
Title: |
|
Happy Hour |
Author: |
|
Devon |
Year: |
|
|
Target Audience: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
Offers well-researched information on alcoholism, treatment, recovery, advertising, and trends (including the disturbing increase in the number of teenage girls drinking heavily).
|
Category: |
|
Children |
Title: |
|
The Brown Bottle |
Author: |
|
Penny Jones |
Year: |
|
1983 |
Target Audience: |
|
Reading level: Ages 9-12 |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
In this allegory, a caterpillar finds such a pleasant mellow glow inside a brown bottle that he rejects his friends and the outside world altogether, and becomes completely dependent on the bottle which traps and eventually kills him.
|
Category: |
|
Guide |
Title: |
|
Life Strategies for Teens |
Author: |
|
Jay McGraw |
Year: |
|
2000 |
Target Audience: |
|
All |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
Life Strategies for Teens is the first guide to teenage life that won't tell you what to do, or who to be, but rather how to live life best.
|
Category: |
|
Guide |
Title: |
|
The One Minute Teacher |
Author: |
|
Spencer Johnson & Constance Johnson |
Year: |
|
1986 |
Target Audience: |
|
Teachers |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
How to teach others to teach themselves.
|
Category: |
|
Guide |
Title: |
|
Working with Emotional Intelligence |
Author: |
|
David Goleman |
Year: |
|
1998 |
Target Audience: |
|
All |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
A thoughtfully written, persuasive account explaining emotional intelligence and why it can be crucial to your career.
|
Category: |
|
Parenting |
Title: |
|
Boundaries with Kids |
Author: |
|
Henry Cloud & John Townsend |
Year: |
|
1998 |
Target Audience: |
|
Parents |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
You want your kids to grow up into healthy adults. You want to see them take responsibility for their behavior, their values, their lives. But maybe you've discovered that simply telling them to "do the right thing" isn't enough. From toddler tantrums to teenage temptations, you've got to help them take ownership of their behavior, feelings, and attitudes. But how? Establish healthy boundaries. Boundaries are the bedrock of good relationships, maturity, safety, and growth for you children and for you. Boundaries with Kids will help you prepare your kids to assume responsibility for their lives. Drawing on principles from the Bible, the authors of the award-winning best-seller Boundaries help you... recognize the boundary issues underlying child behavior problems; set boundaries and establish consequences with kids; get out of the "nagging" trap; stop controlling your child--and instead help your child develop self-control; apply the ten laws of boundaries to parenting; and take six practical steps for implementing boundaries with your kids.
|
Category: |
|
Parenting |
Title: |
|
How to Talk to Teens About Really Important Things |
Author: |
|
Schaefer, Charles and DiGeronimo, Theresa |
Year: |
|
1998 |
Target Audience: |
|
Parents, Teacher |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
Essential guide for those who have found themselves ill prepared -- and ill at ease -- when discussing some of life's most important issues with teens." Specific questions and answers and useful things to say.
|
Category: |
|
Parenting |
Title: |
|
Parenting from the Inside Out |
Author: |
|
Siegle and Hartzell |
Year: |
|
2003 |
Target Audience: |
|
Parents |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
How many parents have found themselves thinking: I can't believe I just said to my child the very thing my parents used to say to me! Am I just destined to repeat the mistakes of my parents? In Parenting from the Inside Out, child psychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel and early childhood expert Mary Hartzell explore the extent to which our childhood experiences shape the way that we parent. Drawing on stunning new findings in neurobiology and attachment research, they explain how interpersonal relationships directly affect the development of the brain, and offer parents a step-by-step approach to forming a deeper understanding of their own life stories that will help them raise compassionate and resilient children.
|
Category: |
|
Parenting |
Title: |
|
Que Significa Ser Padres? |
Author: |
|
Departmento de Salud y Servicieos Humanos de los Estados Unidos |
Year: |
|
2007 |
Target Audience: |
|
Parents, Teachers |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
New Spanish publication that gives evidence-based parenting guidelines. Que significa Ser Padres? is a Spanish-language version of the NICHD's "Adventures in Parenting" booklet. It offers parenting strategies based on scientific research that can be used for children of any age. The booklet gives practical suggestions for successful parenting that parents can adapt for their own lives and situations. It also includes real-life examples of how some parents have incorporated these strategies into their own day-to-day parenting activities.
|
Category: |
|
Parenting |
Title: |
|
Raising a Secure Child |
Author: |
|
Biringen, Zeynep |
Year: |
|
2004 |
Target Audience: |
|
Parents, Teachers |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
Creating an Emotional Connection Between You and Your Child. "What Dr. Spock did for children's physical health, Dr. Biringen does for mental health. A must read for all adults who relate to children and want them to have emotional intelligence.
|
Category: |
|
Parenting |
Title: |
|
Reaching Teens in Their Natural Habitat: A Field Guide for Savvy Parents |
Author: |
|
Holland, Danny |
Year: |
|
2006 |
Target Audience: |
|
Parents |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
With their incomprehensible lingo, often bizarre fashion fixations, technological plug-ins, and ever-changing moods, teenagers can seem like an entirely different species. Connecting with them on meaningful levels--let alone actually influencing them--can seem beyond the realm of possibility. What do advertisers and entertainers who grab the attention of teenagers know that you don't--and how can you counteract their influence in your teen's life? Danny Holland, an expert on youth culture, peers into the hidden world of America's kids--and offers proven advice on how parents can adopt the tools of the experts. You'll discover...how today's teenagers think, including their values, priorities, and primary influences; the communication pattern that speaks most persuasively to teens; the most effective way to improve your relationship with your teen; how to determine which battles absolutely must be won; and many other eye-opening insights. With "insider knowledge", you'll be equipped and empowered with real-world techniques to successfully connect and communicate with your teenager, bridging the gap to build a relationship of lasting influence.
|
Category: |
|
Parenting |
Title: |
|
Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know |
Author: |
|
Meeker, Meg |
Year: |
|
2006 |
Target Audience: |
|
Parents |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
In today's increasingly complicated world, it's often difficult for parents to connect with their daughters--and especially so for fathers. In this unique and invaluable guide, Dr. Meg Meeker, a pediatrician with more than twenty years' experience counseling girls, reveals that a young woman's relationship with her father is far more important than we've ever realized. To become a strong, confident woman, a daughter needs her father's attention, protection, courage, and wisdom. Dr. Meeker shares the ten secrets every father needs to know in order to strengthen or rebuild bonds with his daughter and shape her life--and his own--for the better.
|
Category: |
|
Parenting |
Title: |
|
Strong Mothers Strong Sons |
Author: |
|
Caron, Ann |
Year: |
|
1995 |
Target Audience: |
|
Parents |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
In Strong Mothers, Strong Sons, Ann Caron draws upon research and personal interviews with mothers and boys from a variety of backgrounds to provide fresh insights into how mothers can foster communication and understanding between themselves and their sons.
|
Category: |
|
Parenting |
Title: |
|
The Book of New Family Traditions: How to Create Great Rituals for Holidays and Everyday |
Author: |
|
Cox, Meg |
Year: |
|
2003 |
Target Audience: |
|
Parents |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
Life isn't like it used to be, and we need to invent new traditions for today's families. Meg Cox guides you through the simple steps that help families fully cherish all of those special moments and milestones, help heal the wounds of trauma and loss, and strengthen that indomitable spirit of identity within a family.
|
Category: |
|
Parenting |
Title: |
|
Touchpoints |
Author: |
|
Brazelton, T. Berry |
Year: |
|
1992 |
Target Audience: |
|
Parents |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
Reference guide for the physical and emotional development of children birth - three years
|
Category: |
|
Parenting |
Title: |
|
Transforming the Difficult Child; The Nurtured Heart Approach |
Author: |
|
Glasser, Howard & Easley, Jennifer |
Year: |
|
1998 |
Target Audience: |
|
Parents |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
Shifting the intense child to new patterns of success and strengthening all children on the inside.
|
Category: |
|
Parenting |
Title: |
|
Why Do They Act That Way? A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen |
Author: |
|
Walsh, David |
Year: |
|
2004 |
Target Audience: |
|
Parents |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
A powerful, practical book on the teenage brain. Walsh is a storyteller with the gifts of simplicity and clarity. This book is an easy read, but its message is fresh, nuanced, and important.
|
Category: |
|
Prevention |
Title: |
|
Part of the Solution: Creative Alternatives for Youth |
Author: |
|
Costello, Laura (editor) |
Year: |
|
1995 |
Target Audience: |
|
Professionals |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
The part that art plays in prevention - giving school age children alteranatives to the "street".
|
Category: |
|
Prevention |
Title: |
|
The Social Norms Approach to Preventing School and College Age Substance Abuse |
Author: |
|
|
Year: |
|
|
Target Audience: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
|
Category: |
|
Recovery |
Title: |
|
Clean: A new Generation in Recovery Speaks Out |
Author: |
|
Beckman, Chris |
Year: |
|
2005 |
Target Audience: |
|
All |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
Here, MTV's Chris Beckman tells what it means--and what it takes--for young addicts to get clean and stay clean. Beckman's out-of-control drinking and drugging lased more than a decade before he found recovery at age twenty-three. While his own riveting memoir plays center stage in Clean, Beckman presents the revealing personal stories of ten others whose lives have been affected by addiction. He also shares timely facts about drugs of abuse, risk factors for addiction, and types of treatment.
|
Category: |
|
Drugs |
Title: |
|
Buzzed |
Author: |
|
Cynthia Kuhn, PhD |
Year: |
|
2008 |
Target Audience: |
|
All |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
The third edition of the essential, accessible source for understanding how drugs work and their effects on body and behavior. The authors have revised and d the book to include the most recent discoveries about drugs, including new information on the energy drinks craze, prescription drugs such as OxyContin and Ambien, and the date-rape drug GHB. Scientifically accurate and easy to read, this no-nonsense handbook gives the most balanced, objective information available on the most often used and abused drugs, from alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine to heroin, Ecstasy, and methamphetamine. In both quick-reference summaries and in-depth analysis, it reports on how these drugs enter the body, how they manipulate the brain, their short-term and long-term effects, the kinds of high they produce, and the circumstances in which they can be deadly. Neither a 'Just Say No' treatise nor a 'How to' manual, "Buzzed" is based on the conviction that people make better decisions with accurate information at hand.
|
Category: |
|
Parenting |
Title: |
|
Just Say Know:Talking to Kids about Drugs and Alcohol |
Author: |
|
Cynthia Kuhn |
Year: |
|
2002 |
Target Audience: |
|
Parents Teachers |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Description:
From the authors of Buzzed and Pumped, a no-nonsense guide to what kids should know to make healthy decisions. All of our children deserve the chance to be as bright, successful, and healthy as they can be. But our kids are threatened by the wide availability of alcohol and other drugs in our society. Everyone agrees that the best protection is education, but exactly what do you say? Just Say Know gives parents, educators, and health professionals powerful tools to talk with kids about how alcohol and other drugs interact with their minds and bodies. In a simple, easy-to-read format, it teaches adults what they need to know about a wide range of drugs. For each type of drug the authors suggest conversations that help lead children to choose freedom from drug abuse. For everyone who has a role in the life of children, Just Say Know is an informative guide to teaching kids about staying healthy and making the right decisions when faced with the attractions of drugs and alcohol. 8 pages of color illustrations.
|
