Reading List
In addition to the services we provide, we also have put together a list of useful books. If you have any specific needs or request, please contact our advice line staff.
Recommended Reading by our Practitioners
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |
| Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Third Edition: A Handbook for Diagnosis and Treatment |
Russell A. Barkley |
2005 |
| Taking Charge of ADHD: The Complete Authoritative Guide for Parents |
Russell A. Barkley |
2000 |
| Beyond Ritalin: Facts About Medication and Other Strategies for Helping Children, Adolescents, and Adults With Attention Deficit Disorders |
Stephen W. Garber |
1996 |
| Is Your Child Hyperactive? Inattentive? Impulsive? Distractible?: Helping the ADD/Hyperactive Child |
Stephen W. Garber |
1995 |
| Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood through Adulthood |
Edward M. Hallowell |
1994 |
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| Behavior |
| 1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 |
Thomas Phelan |
2003 |
| The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children |
Ross Greene |
2005 |
| Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide for Parents Whose Child is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic |
Mary Sheedy Kurcinka |
2006 |
| Setting Limits With your Strong Willed Child: Eliminating Conflict by Establishing Clear, Firm, and Respectful Boundaries |
Robert J. MacKenzie |
2001 |
| Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem-Solving Approach |
Ross Green |
2005 |
| The Pocket Parent |
Gail Reichlin |
2001 |
| Positive Disipline |
Jane Nelson |
2006 |
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| Breastfeeding |
| The American Academy of Pediatrics New Mother's Guide to Breastfeeding |
The American Academy of Pediatrics |
2002 |
| The Nursing Mother's Companion |
Kathleen Huggins |
2005 |
| The Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers: The Most Comprehensive Problem-Solution Guide to Breastfeeding from the Foremost Expert in North America |
Jack Newman, MD |
2006 |
| The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding |
Gotsch and Torgus |
2004 |
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| Death |
| Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children |
Mellonie and Ingspen |
1987 |
| What's Heaven? |
Maria Schriver |
2007 |
| I'll Miss You, Mr. Hooper |
Norman Stiles |
1984 |
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| Development |
| The American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's Symptoms: The Official, Complete Home Reference, Birth Through Adolescence |
Donald Schiff, MD |
1999 |
| Your Baby and Child: From Birth to Age Five |
Penelope Leach |
1997 |
| Your Child's Health: The Parents' One-Stop Reference Guide to: Symptoms, Emergencies, Common Illnesses, Behavior Problems, and Healthy Development |
Barton D. Schmitt |
2005 |
| On the Safe Side: Your Complete Reference to Childproofing for Infants and Toddlers |
Cindy Wolf |
1998 |
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| Divorce |
| Mom's House, Dad's House: Making Two Homes For Your Child |
Isulina Rice |
1997 |
| Making Divorce Easier on Your Child: 50 Effective Ways To Help Drew Adjust |
Long & Forehand |
2002 |
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| Family |
| And Baby Makes Four: Welcoming a Second Child into the Family |
Hillary Wagner |
1998 |
| Welcoming Your Second Baby |
Vickie Lansky |
2005 |
| Games Babies Play: From Birth to Twelve Months |
Vickie Lansky |
2001 |
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| Infant Care |
| What to Expect the First Year |
Arlene Eisenberg |
2008 |
| Touchpoints: Your Child's Emotional and Behavioral Development, Birth to 3 - The Essential Reference for the Early Years |
T. Berry Brazelton |
2001 |
| Baby 411 |
Denise Fields |
2007 |
| Toddler 411 |
Denise Fields |
2008 |
| Baby Signs: How to Talk with Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk |
Linda Acredolo |
2002 |
| Baby Proofing Basics 2 Ed: How To Keep Your Child Safe |
Vicki Lansky |
2002 |
| The Safe Baby: A Do-It-Yourself Guide for Home Safety |
Debra Smiley |
2004 |
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| Learning Differences |
| Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science - Based Program for Reading at Any Level |
Sally Shaywitz |
2005 |
| A Mind At A Time |
Mel Levine |
2003 |
| The Misunderstood Child, Fourth Edition: Understanding and Coping with YOur Child's Learning Disabilities |
Larry Silver |
2006 |
| When Your Child has LD (Learning Differences): A Survival Guide For Parents |
Gary Fisher and Rhoda Cummings |
1995 |
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| Manners |
| Social Smarts: Manners for Today's Kids |
Carol Barkin |
1996 |
| Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children |
Judith Martin |
2002 |
| Miss Manners' Basic Training: Eating |
Judith Martin |
1997 |
| Be the Best You; A Guide to Etiquette and Self-Improvement for Children and Teens |
Robin Thompson |
1999 |
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| Middle School Years |
| The Roller-Coaster Years |
Charlene C. Giannette |
1997 |
| Too Old for This, Too Young for That!: Your Survival Guide for the Middle School Years |
Harriet S. Mosatche |
2000 |
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| Nutrition |
| Your Child's Weight: Helping without Harming |
Ellyn Satter |
2005 |
| Feed Me I'm Yours |
Vicki Lansky |
2004 |
| Eat Healthy Feel Great |
William Sear |
2002 |
| Super Baby Food |
Ruth Yaron |
1998 |
| How to Get Your Kid to Eat: But Not Too Much |
Ellyn Satter |
1987 |
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| Obesity |
| Ending the Food Fight: Guide Your Child to a Healthy Weight in a Fast Food/ Fake Food World |
David Ludwig |
2008 |
| A Parent's Guide to Childhood Obesity |
The American Academy of Pediatrics
|
2006 |
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| Parenting |
| Caring for Your Baby and Young Child Birth to age 5 |
The American Academy of Pediatrics |
2004 |
| Welcoming Your Second Baby |
Vicki Lansky |
2005 |
| Seven Steps to Help Your Child Worry Less: A Family Guide |
Sam Goldstein |
2003 |
| Practical Parenting Tips |
Vicki Lansky |
2004 |
| How To Talk So Your Kids Will Listen & Listen So Your Kids Will Talk |
Adele Faber, Elanie Mzalish |
1999 |
| Backtalk: 4 Steps to Ending Rude Behavior in Your Kids |
Audray Ricker |
1998 |
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| Parenting Teenager |
| What Are You Doing in There: Balancing Your Need To Know with Your Adolescent's Need to Grow |
Charlene C. Giannette |
2003 |
| Boy Crazy!: Keeping Our Daughter's Feet on the Ground When Her Head is in the Clouds |
Charlene C. Giannette |
2006 |
| Parenting 911: How to Safeguard and Rescue Your 10 to 15 Year-Old from Substance Abuse, Sexual Encounters...and Other Risky Situations |
Charlene C. Giannette |
1999 |
| How To Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk |
Adele Faber |
2006 |
| Ignorance is No Defense - A Teenager's Guide to Georgia Law |
J. Tom Morgan |
2009 |
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| Puberty |
| Ready Set Grow |
Lynda Madaras |
2007 |
| The "What's Happening to My Body" Book for Boys |
Lynda Madaras |
2007 |
| The "What's Happening to My Body" Book for Girls |
Lynda Madaras |
2007 |
| It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health |
Robie H. Harris |
2004 |
| It's So Amazing! A Book About Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families |
Robie H. Harris |
2002 |
| Early Puberty in Girls: The Essential Guide to Coping with This Common Problem |
Paul Kaplowitz |
2004 |
| The Care & Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls |
Valorie Schaefer |
1998 |
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| Sleeping |
| Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child |
Marc Weissbluth |
2005 |
| Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby |
Tracy Hogg |
2005 |
| Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems: New, Revised, and Expanded Edition |
Richard Ferber |
2006 |
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| Talented and Gifted |
| Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good? |
Miriam Adderholdt, PhD and Jan Goldberg |
1999 |
| The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids |
Sally Yahnke Walker, PhD |
2002 |
| The Gifted Kids' Survival Guide for Ages 10 & Under |
Judy Galbraith, MA |
1999 |
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| Toilet Training/Learning |
| Mommy! I Have To Go Potty!: A Parent's Guide to Toilet Training |
Jan Faull |
1996 |
| Toilet Training: A Practical Guide to Daytime and Nighttime Training |
Vicki Lansky |
2002 |
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