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
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
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
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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