Books we recommend:

Books about OCD:

• http://The OCD Workbook: Your Guide to Breaking Free from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder by Bruce M Hyman, PhD and Cherry Pedrick RN.
• http://What to do When Your Brain Gets Stuck: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming OCD by Dawn Huebner, PhD
• http://Up & Down the Worry Hill: A Children’s Book about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and its Treatment by Aureen P Wagner, PhD
• http://Stop Obsessing!: How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions by Edna B Foa, PhD, and Reid Wilson PhD
• OCD: A Workbook for Clinicians, Children and Teens: Actions to Beat, Control & Defeat Obsessive Compulsive Disorder   By Christina Taylor
• The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD. By Jon Hershfield MFT

 

 

DBT Books:

• Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder- Marsha M. Linehan (The Guilford Press, 1993)
• Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified: An Essential Guide for Understanding and Living with BPD- Robert O. Friedel, MD (Da Capo Press, 2004)
• The High Conflict Couple: A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Guide to Finding Peace, Intimacy, & Validation- Alan E. Fruzetti, Ph.D. (New Harbinger Publications, 2006)
• Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind  Kristen Neff, PhD (William Morrow, 2010)
• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents   -Lindsay Gibson
• Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder: Relieve Your Suffering Using the Core Skill of Dialectical Behavior Therapy - Blaise Aguirre MD & Gillian Galen PsyD (New Harbinger, 2013)

General Adult Books

• Finally Focused: a breakthrough natural treatment for ADHD by James Greenblatt MD
• "Don't You Know Who I Am?": How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility. -Durvasula Ph.D., Ramani

Kids/Families:

• Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder: A Family Guide for Healing and Change- Valerie Porr, M.A. (Oxford University Press, 2010)
• Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Kids: A DBT-Based Skills Workbook to Help Children Manage Mood Swings, Control Angry Outbursts, and Get Along with Others - Jennifer Solin, PsyD & Christina Kress, MSW (Instant Help, 2017)
• Freeing Your Child from Anxiety: Powerful, Practical Solutions to Overcome Your Child's Fears, Worries, and Phobias - Tamar Chansky (Harmony, 2004)
• Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder- Shari Y. Manning, Ph.D. (The Guilford Press, 2011)
• DBT Skills Manual for Adolescents - Jill Rathus & Alec Miller (The Guilford Press)
• Parenting Teens with Love and Logic by Foster Cline and Jim Fay

Couples/Parenting Books

• The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
• The Power of Showing up by Daniel Siegel
• Men are from Mars Women are from Venus by John Gray Ph.D
• The Divorce Remedy by Michelle Weiner Davis
• Co-Parenting Works! Helping your children thrive after divorce. By Tammy Daughtry
• Mindful Parenting by Kristen Race, Ph.D

Apps

• Live OCD free by: Kristen Mulcahy
• DBT Diary card and skills coach
• Mood Notes (great for labeling emotions)
• Relax Free
• PTSD Coach
• Smiling mind
• YAPP-good for OCD reminders
• Insight Timer-guided meditations
• Brene Brown on Empathy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw