All material is available for loan to Redwood County Families.
Please contact Penny Messer at (507) 637-4050

PARENT MENTOR NETWORK RESOURCE LIBRARY
    Books
        Parenting
        Children and Adolesents
    Other Resources
    Pamphlets
    Video Tapes
Audio Tapes
BOOKS: PARENTING

Choices and Consequences: What to do when a teenager uses alcohol/drugs

The Challenging Child: Understanding, raising, and enjoying "difficult" children

Lonely, Sad, and Angry: A parent’s guide to depression in children and adolescents

The Working Parents’ Help Book

Taking Charge of ADHD: The complete authoritative guide for parents

S.O.S. Help for Parents: Guide for handling common behavior problems

1-2-3 Magic: Effective discipline for children ages 2 to 12

Get Out of My Life: Parent’s guide to the new teenager

It’s Not Fair: Guide to the tougher parts of parenting

How to Handle a Hard-To-Handle Kid: Understanding and changing problem behaviors

The Parent’s Little Book of Lists: Do’s and don’ts of effective parenting

The Ten Most Troublesome Teenage Problems and How to Solve Them

Positive Discipline A – Z: From toddlers to teens, solutions to parenting problems

Parenting Toward Solutions

Raising Your Spirited Child

Raising Your Spirited Child Workbook

Simple Secrets of Parenting

Common Sense Parenting

Survival Tips for Working Moms

The Answer is No – Saying It and Sticking To It: For parents of 2 to 12 year olds

8 Weeks to a Well-Behaved Child

The ADD Hyperactivity Workbook for Parents, Teachers, and Kids

Active Parenting: Teaching cooperation, courage, and responsibility

How to Develop Self-Esteem in Your Child

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families

The Difficult Child

Negotiating the Special Education Maze: Guide for parents and teachers

Getting Through to Kids: Problem solving with children ages 6 – 18

New Skills for Frazzled Parents

10 Steps to Building Values Within Your Children

How to Help Your Child With Homework: Good study habits, ending homework wars

Parents, Teens, and Boundaries: How to draw the line

Positive Parenting Your Teens: Practical solutions

Angry Kids, Frustrated Parents: Ways to prevent and reduce aggression in your children

An Owner’s Guide to Parenting Teenagers

A Parent’s Survival Guide to Childhood Depression

What To Say or Do If Your Child . . . . . : Quick reference for handling behavior problems

Common Sense Parenting Learn At Home Parenting Kit

The Explosive Child: Understanding and parenting easily frustrated, "inflexible" children

Straight Talk About Psychiatric Medications for Kids

Children With Autism: Parent’s guide

The Good Kid Book: How to solve the 16 most common behavior problems

Children With Tourette Syndrome: Parent’s guide

How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk

Teen Book: Guide for parents of 9 to 16 year olds

The Manipulative Child: How to regain control, raise resilient, resourceful, independent kids

Teenagers With ADD: Parent’s guide

The Unmotivated Child: Helping your underachiever become a successful student

The Out-Of-Sync-Child: Recognizing and coping with sensory integration dysfunction

When Anger Hurts Your Kids: Parent’s guide

The Single Mother’s Book: Guide to managing children, career, home, finance

13 Ways to Help Families Stop Fighting and Solve Problems Peacefully

BOOKS: CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

My Best Friend Is Me!

No More Secrets For Me: A book for adults to share with children

How to Handle Bullies, Teasers, and Other Meanies

Kid Power Tactics for Dealing With Depression

Sometimes I Drive My Mom Crazy, But I Know She’s Crazy About Me: ADHD, self-esteem

The Very Angry Day That Amy Didn’t Have: Learning constructive alternatives to getting angry

My Life Turned Upside Down, But I Turned It Rightside Up: Divorce

Sometimes I Like to Fight, But I Don’t Do It Much Anymore: For difficulty controlling anger

When Nothing Matters Anymore: Survival guide for depressed teens

Don’t Pop Your Cork On Mondays: Children’s anti-stress book

Don’t Feed the Monster on Tuesdays: Children’s self-esteem book

Don’t Rant and Rave on Wednesdays: Children’s anger-control book

Don’t Despair on Thursdays: Children’s grief-management book

Feed Your Head: Some excellent stuff on being yourself (adolescents)

Stick Up For Yourself!: Kid’s guide to personal power and positive self-esteem

The Teenage Survival Book

Everytime I Blow My Top I Lose My Head: Kid’s guide to keeping cool under stress
 
 

BOOKS: PROVIDERS

Child Therapy Today Volume I: Child sexual abuse, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Child

Custody, Childhood and adolescent depression, Violent and aggressive children,

Attention-deficit disorder

Child Therapy Today Volume II: Childhood and adolescent anxiety disorders, Childhood and

Adolescent eating disorders, Helping children cope with death, Behavioral difficulties

In the classroom, Involving parents in therapy, Keeping children in the home,

Treatment techniques in child psychotherapy

Child Therapy Today Volume III: Understanding and treating opposition/defiant child, Group

Therapy with children, Treating autistic children, Gender identity disorder in children,

Emotional literacy – teaching mental health to children, Treating childhood enuresis

Child Therapy Today Volume IV: Treating childhood obesity, Treating selective mutism,

Treating Tourette Syndrome in children, Nicotine addiction in young people,

Child and adolescent psychopharmacology, The underachieving child

Child Therapy Today Volume V: Adventure therapy for trouble youth, Habit disorders in

Children, Animal-assisted therapy with children, Childhood-onset schizophrenia,

Shyness in children

Mind Coach: How to teach kids and teenagers to think positive and feel good

Helping the Child Who Doesn’t Fit In

Complete Learning Disabilities Handbook

Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perspective

Defiant Children: A clinicians’s manual for assessment and parent training

If Anybody Asks Me . . .: 1001 questions for educators, counselors, therapists

Skills for Families, Skills for Life: Practitioner’s guide to teaching living skills to families

I Hate You . . . Don’t Leave Me: Understanding borderline personality

Suicide Intervention Handbook

Lost in the Mirror: inside look at borderline personality disorder

Building Skills in High-Risk Families: How to teach skills to troubled families, strategies

For dealing with crisis, and maintaining focus in chaotic situations

The Directory of Critical Information for Helping Children

Change Your Brain Change Your Life: Program for conquering anxiety, depression,

Obsessiveness, anger, and impulsiveness

Images Into Human Behavior: a brain-SPECT atlas (CD)

My Body Is Mine, My Feelings Are Mine: storybook about body safety for children with an

Adult guide book

A Volcano In My Tummy: helping children to handle anger/resource book for parents, caregivers,

And teachers

OTHER RESOURCES

I Don’t Have to Make Everything All Better: empowering others to solve their own problems

The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook

Stress, Anxiety, Depression Workbook

The Depression Workbook: Living with depression and manic depression

The Anger Workbook

62 Ways to Create Change in the Lives of Troubled Children

What Do You Do With a Child Like This?

PAMPHLETS AND BROCHURES: PARENTING POINTERS:

Successful Single Parenting

Building Your Child’s Self-Esteem

Talking with Your Kids

When Your Child is Home Alone

Improving Your Child’s School Attendance

Helping Your Child Adjust Successfully to Divorce

Being a Stepparent

Improving Your Child’s Homework Skills

Reducing Your Child’s Risk for Depression and Suicide

Reducing Your Child’s Risk for Underage Drinking

Reducing Your Child’s Risk for Drug Abuse

Handling Your Child’s Aggressive Behaviors

Protecting Your Child from AIDS

Understanding Your Child’s Eating Disorder

Controlling Your Child’s Hyperactivity

PAMPHLETS AND BROCHURES: WHAT EVERY PARENT SHOULD KNOW . . .

About Drugs and Alcohol

About Suicide

About Depression

About Peer Pressure

About Talking about Sex

About Gangs

About Self-Injury

About Kids and Divorce

About Eating Disorders

About Using Praise

About Solving Problems

About Instilling Values

About Building Relationships

About Setting Boundaries

PAMPHLETS AND BROCHURES:

How to be a Perfect Parent

How to Deal with an Angry Child

About Child Discipline

About Attention Deficit hyperactivity Disorder

Childhood Stress

Coping with Hyperactive Children

About Teenage Depression

Understanding and Overcoming Depression

All About Drug Abuse

A Parent’s Guide to learning and School Problems

Juvenile Delinquency and Learning Disabilities

Not Just a Skinny Kid: The Anorexic or bulimic Teenager

Childhood Anxiety Disorders

Children with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Children, Depression, and Suicide

Hyperactive Children

Developmentally Delayed Children

Children Who Tell Lies

Juvenile Firesetters

Juvenile Theft

Children Who Wet the Bed

Bulimia

Anorexia nervosa

Kids who Kill

Juvenile Gangs

Adolescent Suicide: Some Clues to Understanding and Prevention

Harassment: What Is It? What Can I Do?

Managing Stress

Preventing Teenage Suicide

Managing Anger: A Guide for Young People

Dealing with Anger

Coping with Stress in Childhood

Learning Disabled Children

Aggression and Violence in Youth

PAMPHLETS AND BROCHURES: PARENTING/FAMILY/SCHOOL

Children and Television: A Primer for Parents

Tips on Discipline in the Classroom

Abused Adolescents: How Schools and Educators can Help

Helping kids Make Friends

Understanding At Risk Behaviors

Divorce in the Family

Increasing Children’s Self-Confidence

The Co-Dependency Trap: A Family Problem

Single Parenting

Peer Pressure: A Guide for Teens

Managing Anger: A Guide for Young People

About Self-Esteem

Coping with Family Stress

All About Step Families

About Runaways

Diversity

Confident Parenting

Practical Discipline: A Guide for Parents

Common Sense Tips on Parenting

What to Do if Your Child is an Underachiever

A Parent’s Guide to learning and School Problems

The Vital Signs of Family Life

A parent’s Guide to Building Self-Esteem

Adolescence: A Time of Change

Effects of Racism and Prejudice on Children

Developing Healthy Attitudes in Children

What Parents Should Know about Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice

Helping Children Understand and Cope with Death and Dying

Building Children’s Self-Esteem

Violence in America’s Schools

Child Protection Guide

VIDEOS

Working with Hostile and Resistant Teens: Hostile

Working with Hostile and Resistant Teens: Resistant

Parenting the Difficult Adolescent – Big Boy Blue: A Guide for Parents of Depressed Teens

Parent Difficult Adolescents – Calamity Jamie: A Parent’s Guide to Coping with Defiant Teens

You Can Be a Better Parent in Thirty Minutes

Shaking, Hitting, Spanking - - - - - What to Do Instead

New Skills for Frazzled Parents

Why Won’t My Child Pay Attention?

Common Sense Parenting Learn-at-Home Video Kit

No, I Won’t! And You Can’t Make Me

S.O.S. Help for Parents

A Change for the Better: Teaching Correct Behavior

1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2 to 12

AUDIOCASSETTES

Audiobook: Common Sense Parenting

Audiobook: Mind Coach: How to Teach Kids and Teenagers to Think Positive and Feel Good

Audiobook: New Skills for Frazzled Parents

Audiobook: 10 Steps to Building Values within Children

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