Self Help Books Available In The Counseling Office

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By SUBJECT:

ADDICTION

  • A Million Little Pieces
    By James Frey

ADJUSTING TO COLLEGE

  • 10 Simple Solutions to Shyness
    By Martin M. Antony, Ph.D.
  • The College Dorm Survival Guide
    By Julia DeVillers
  • College Knowledge: What You Need To Know Before You Go
    By Jennifer Trussell
  • The Education of Character
    By Will Keim
  • Gift Of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists & their Patients 
    By Elke Zuercher-White
  • Letting Go: A Parents’ Guide To Understanding The College Years
    By Karen Levin Coburn & Madge Lawrence Treeger
  • Merlin: The Sorcerer's Guide to Survival in College
    By Christopher F. Monte
  • My Freshman Manual
    By Joseph P. Turton
  • 100 Things Every College Freshman Ought To Know
    By William Disbro
  • 100 Things Every College Student Ought To Know
    By Carlette Jackson Hardin
  • The Naked Roommate
    By Harlan Cohen

AFRICAN-AMERICAN

  • Daily Cornbread
    By Stephanie Stokes Oliver
  • The Heart of a Woman
    By Maya Angelou
  • Sacred Pampering Principles: An African-American Woman's Guide to Self-Care & Inner Renewal
    By Debrena Jackson Gandy

ALCOHOL AND SUBSTANCE USE

  • Another Chance: Hope and Health for the Alcoholic Family
    By Sharon Wegscheider Cruse
  • Addiction Workbook: A Step-By-Step Guide to Quitting Alcohol & Drugs
    By Patrick Fanning & John O’Neill
  • Adult Children of Alcoholics
    By Janet Geringer Wolitz, Ed.D.
  • Codependent No More
    By Melody Beattie
  • Cracked: Putting Broken Lives Together Again
  • Drinking
    By Caroline Knapp
  • It Will Never Happen To Me: Children of Alcoholics
    By Claudia Black, PH.D., M.S.W.
  • Perfect Daughters - Adult Daughters of Alcoholics
    By Robert J. Ackerman, Ph.D
  • When Your Parents Drink Too Much
    By Eric Ryerson
  • Living Sober
    By Alcoholics Anonymous
  • Smashed
    By Koren Zailckas
  • Street Drugs
    By The Publishers Group

ANGER

  • Angry All The Time: An Emergency Guide To Anger Control
    By Ron Potter-Efron
  • Angry Book
    By Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D.,
  • The Dance of Anger
    By Harriet Lerner
  • How To Control Your Anger Before It Controls You
    By Albert Ellis, Ph.D., Raymond Chip Tafrte, Ph.D.
  • Managing Anger
    By Mitchell H. Messer, M.A., Romand Corondao-Bogdaniak, M.D., M.H.S., Linda J. Dillon, B.H. R.H.Y.

ANXIETY

  • 10 Simple Solutions to Shyness
    By Martin M. Antony, Ph.D
  • The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook – 3rd Edition
    By Edmund J. Bourne
  • Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
    By Jeffrey M. Schwartz
  • An End To panic: Breakthrough Techniques for Overcoming Panic Disorder
    By Irvin D. Yalom
  • Overcoming Obsessive Thoughts
    By Christine Purdon, Ph.D., C. Psych. And David A. Clark, Ph.D., L. Psych.
  • The PTSD Workbook: Simple, Effective Techniques for Overcoming Traumatic Stress Symptoms
    By Mary Beth Williams, Soili Poijula & Lasse Nurmi
  • Taking The Anxiety Out Of Test-Taking
    By Susan Johnson
  • The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook
    By Edmund J. Bourne, Ph.D.
  • Beyond Anxiety & Phobia
    By Edmund J. Bourne, Ph.D.
  • Thoughts & Feelings: Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life
    By Matthew Mckay, Ph.D., Martha Davis, Ph.D., Patrick Fanning

ASSERTIVENESS

  • Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff – and It’s All Small Stuff
    By Richard Carlson
  • Don't Say Yes When You Want To Say No
    By Albert Fensternheim, Ph.D. & Jean Baer
  • How To Start A Conversation And Make Friends
    By Don Gabor
  • Your Perfect Right: A Guide to Assertive Living
    By Robert Alberti and Michael Emmons

ATTENTION-DEFICIT DISORDER

  • Driven to Distraction: Recognizing & Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder
    By Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey

CHRONIC ILLNESS

  • Living With Chronis Illness
    By Cheri Register
  • Oone More Day: Daily Meditations For People With Chronic Illness
    By Sefra Kobrin Pitzele
  • Recovery from Cancer
    By Elaine Nussbaum
  • Wrestling with the Angel
    By Max Lerner

COMMUNICATION

  • ...and I thought I knew how to communicate!
    By: Josiah Dilley
  • Messages
    By Matthew McKay, Ph.D., Martha Davis, Ph.D., Patrick Fanning

CULTURAL ISSUES

  • Sacred Pampering Principles: An African-American Woman’s Guide to Self-Care & Inner Renewal
    By Debrena Jackson Gandy

DEPRESSION

  • Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Patients & Families
    By Francis Mark Mondimore
  • The Depression Workbook
    By Mary Ellen Copeland, M.S.
  • Feeling Good
    By Davis Burns, M.D.
  • Listening to Prozac
    By Peter D. Kramer
  • Mind Over Mood
    By Dennis Greenberger & Christine A. Padesky
  • The Up and Down Life: The Truth about Bipolar Disorder---the Good, the Bad, and the Funny
    By Paul E. Jones with Andrea Thompson
  • Thoughts & Feelings: Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life
    By Matthew Mckay, Ph.D., Martha Davis, Ph.D., Patrick Fanning
  • Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn’t Teach You And Medication Can’t Give You
    By Richard O’Connor
  • You Can Beat Depression: A Guide to Prevention and Recovery
    By John D. Preston
  • Down Came the Rain
    By Brooke Shields

EATING DISORDERS

  • Adios, Barbie
    Edited By Ophira Edut
  • Adonis Complex: The Secret Crisis of Male Body Obsession
    By Harris G. Pope, Jr., M.D., Katharine A. Phillips, M.D., Roberto Olivardia, Ph.D.
  • Appetites
    By Caroline Knapp
  • The Appetite Awareness Workbook
    By Linda W. Craighead, Ph.D
  • The Beginner's Guide to Eating Disorders Recovery
    By Nancy J. Kolodny, M.A., MSW
  • Binge No More
    By Joyce D. Nash, Ph.D.
  • Body Betrayed
    By Kathryn Zebes, M.D.,
  • Body Wars: Making Peace with Women’s Bodies
    By Margo Maine, Ph.D.
  • Dying To Be Thin
    By Ira M. Sacker, M.D. & Marc A. Zimmer, Ph.D.
  • The Eating Disorder Sourcebook
    By Carolyn Costin, M.A.
  • Enlightened Eating
    By Ruggles Radcliffe
  • Fat and Furious: Women & Food Obsession
    By Judi Hollis
  • Father Hunger: Fathers, Daughters and Food
    By Margo Maine, Craig Johnson
  • Hunger Pains
    By Mary Pipher, Ph.D.
  • The Secret Language of Eating Disorders
    By Peggy Claude-Pierre
  • Treating and Overcoming Anorexia Nervosa
    By Steven Levenkron
  • Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
    By Marya Hornbacher

FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD ISSUES

  • Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self
    By David M. Brodzinsky, Ph.D., Marshall D. Schechter, M.D., Robin Marantz Henig
  • Fathers and male friends
    By Alan W. McEvoy, Jeff B. Brookings
  • The Love They Lost: Living in the Legacy of Our Parent’s Divorce
    By Stephanie Staal
  • When Parents Divorce
    By Jill Krementz
  • Where Were You Father When I Needed You, Dad?
    By Jane Myers Drew
  • Adult Children of Divorce
    By Jeffrey Zimmerman, Ph.D., Elizabeth S. Thayer, Ph.D.

GENERAL

  • Autobiography of a Schizophrenic
    Interpretation By Marguerite Sechehaye
  • Aquamarine Blue
    Edited by Dawn Prince-Hughes
  • Conquering Schizophrenia
    By Peter Wyden
  • Live Until You Die
    By Helen Daniel
  • Man’s Search for Meaning
    By Viktor E. Frankl
  • Psalms Of My Life
    By Joseph Bayly
  • Martial Arts
    By Peter Lewis
  • Self Matters
    By Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D.
  • Tough Minded Faith For Tender-Hearted People
    By Robert H. Schuller
  • Toward a Psychology Of Being
    By Abraham Maslow
  • The Turbulent Twenties Survival Guide
    By Marcos R. Salazar
  • Twentysomething: Surviving and Thriving in the Real World
    By Margaret Feinberg
  • When Bad Things Happen to Good People
    By Harold S. Kushner
  • When Perfect Isn't Good Enough
    By Anthony & Swinson

GRIEF

  • Always Too Soon: Voices of Support for Those Who Have Lost Both Parents
    By Allison Gilbert with Christina Baker Kline
  • Beyond Grief
    By Carol Staurdacher
  • Chicken Soup for the Grieving Soul
    By Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
  • Death and The Family: The Importance of Mourning
    By Lily Pincus
  • Grief: Difficult Times – Simple Steps
    By Emily Lane Waszak
  • How To Survive The Loss Of A Love
    By Melba Colgrove, Ph.D., Harold H. Bloomfield, M.D., Peter McWilliams
  • Losing a Parent
    By Fiona Marshall
  • The Loss That Is Forever: The Life Long Impact of the Early Death of a Mother or Father
    By Maxine Harris, PH.D.
  • Motherless Daughters: the Legacy of Loss
    By Hope Adelman
  • Remembering Mother, Finding Myself
    By Patricia Commins
  • When Parents Die: A Guide For Adults
    By Edward Myers
  • Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies & Impossible Expectations…
    By Judith Viorst
  • No time to Say GoodBye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One
    By Carla Fine
  • On Death and Dying,
    By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Safe Passage: Words to Help the Grieving Hold Fast and Let Go
    By Molly Fumia
  • Time To Grieve: Mediations For Healing after the Death of a Loved One
    By Carol Staudacher
  • Too Young To Die
    By Francine Klagsbrun
  • When You Don't Know What to Say - How to Help Your Grieving Friends
    By Harold Ivan Smith

HIV

  • Advice For Life: A Women’s Guide to Aids Risks and Prevention
    By Chris Norwood
  • Breaking the Surface
    By Greg Louganis with Eric Marcus
  • When Someone You Know Has AIDS
    By Leonard J. Martelli with Fran D Peltz, C.R.C. & William Messina, C.S.W.

IMPULSE CONTROL

  • A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation
    By Marilee Strong
  • The Sex Addiction Workbook
    By Tamara Penix Sbraga, Ph.D., William T. O'Donohue, Ph.D.

ISSUES OF SEXUAL IDENTITY

  • Always Our Children
    By The United States Catholic Conference
  • Becoming A Man: Half A Life Story
    By Paul Monette
  • Breaking the Surface
    By Greg Louganis with Eric Marcus
  • Broken Fever: Reflections of Gay Boyhood
    By James Morrison
  • Family Matter: A Parents’ Guide to Homosexuality
    By Dr. Charles Silverstein
  • How Will I Tell My Mother? A True Battle with Homosexuality & Aids
    By Jerry Arterburn
  • Gay Life
    Edited By Eric E. Rofes
  • Proud to Be
    By Amy E. Dean

MEN'S ISSUES

  • Iron John: A Book About Men
    By Robert Bly
  • Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man
    By Sam Keen
  • Fathers and male friends
    By Alan W. McEvoy, Jeff B. Brookings
  • King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
    By Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette

PAST ABUSE

  • Adults Molested As Children
    By Euan Bear w/ Peter T. Dimock
  • Healng the Abuse Of Trama: A Woman’s Workbook
    By Mary Ellen Copeland
  • Victims No Longer: Men Recovering from Incest and other Sexual Child Abuse
    By Mike Lew
  • Getting Through the Day: Strategies for Adults Hurt as Children
    By Nancy Napier
  • Does My Nakedness Offend You?
    By Cassandra Wilson

RELATIONSHIPS

  • After the Breakup: Women Sort Through The Rubble and Rebuild Lives of New Possibilities
    By Angela Watrous, Carole Honeychurch
  • Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self
    By David M. Brodzinsky, Ph.D., Marshall D. Schechter, M.D., Robin Marantz Henig
  • The Dance of Intimacy
    By Harriet Lerner
  • Codependent No More: How To Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring For Yourself
    By Melodie Beattie
  • Friend To Friend: Helping Your Friends Through Problems
    By J. David Stone and Larry Keefauver
  • The Good Bye Book
    By Howard Bronson and Mike Riley
  • Mars and Venus Starting Over
    by John Gray, Ph.D.
  • Real Friends: Becoming the Friend You Like To Have
    By Barbara B. Varenhorst
  • Reconcilable Differences
    By Andrew Christensen & Neil Jacobsen
  • Relationship Rescue
    By Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D
  • Splitting Up
    By Alvin Pam and Judith Pearson
  • Surviving Separation and Divorce: A Woman’s Guide to Making it Through the First Year
    By Loriann Hoff Oberlin
  • Too Good To Leave, Too Bad To Stay
    By Mira Kirshenbaum
  • When Your Relationship Ends
    By Dr. Bruce Fisher
  • Why Men Love Bitches
    by Sherry Argov
  • You’re Wearing That? Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation
    By Deborah Tannen
  • ZebraHead (DVD)
    By Oliver Stone

SEPTEMBER 11

  • 911: The Book of Help, Authors Respond to the Tragedy, edited
    By Michael Cart

SEXUAL ASSAULT AND HARASSMENT

  • Avoiding Rape On And Off Campus
    By Carol Prichard
  • Confronting Rape and Sexual Assault (World of Women Paper No. 3)
    By Mary E. Odem (editor), Jody Clay – Warner (editor)
  • Girls Fight Back: The College Girl’s Guide to Protecting Herself
    By Erin Weed
  • If You Are Raped
    By Kathryn M. Johnson
  • If She Is Raped
    By Alan W. McEvoy, Jeff B. Bookings
  • The Other Side of Silence: Women Tell About Their Experiences with Date Rape
    By Christine Carter
  • Stalking
    By Emily Spence Diehl
  • Talking Back To Sexual Pressure
    By Elizabeth Powell, M.S., M.A.

SPIRITUALITY

  • Daily Cornbread
    By Stephanie Stokes Oliver
  • Eat, Pray, Love
    By Elizabeth Gilbert
  • In the Middle of This Road We Call Our Life
    By James W. Jones
  • Life Lessons
    by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler
  • Stirring the Waters
    By Janell Moon
  • Twentysomething: Surviving and Thriving in the Real World
    By Margaret Feinberg

STRESS

  • Fighting Invisible Tigers - A Stress Management Guide for Teens
    by Earl Hipp
  • Instant Meditation for Stress Relief
    By John Hudson
  • Kicking Your Stress Habits
    By Donald A. Tubesing, Ph.D.
  • Meditation & Relaxation: De-Stress Body and Mind
    By Marielle Renssen
  • Pocket Massage for Stress Relief
    by Clare Maxwell-Hudson
  • The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook
    By Martha Davis, Matthew McKay & Elizabeth Robbins Eshelman
  • The Relaxation Response
    By Herbert Benson, M.D.
  • Stress In College Athletics
    By James Harry Humphrey, William Bowden & Debora Yow
  • Ten Minute Relaxation for Mind and Body
    By Jeannie Harding
  • Thoughts & Feelings: Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life
    By Matthew Mckay, Ph.D., Martha Davis, Ph.D., Patrick Fanning
  • The Woman's Comfort Book: A Self-Nurturing Guide for Restoring Balance in Your Life
    By Jennifer Louden
  • The Worrywort’s Companion: Twenty one - Ways to Sooth Yourself and Worry Smart
    By Dr. Beverly Potter
  • You Must Relax
    By Edmund Jacobsen, M.D.

TIME MANAGEMENT

  • How To Get Control Of Your Time And Your Life
    By Alan Lakein
  • Living Without Procrastination
    By M. Susan Roberts, Ph.D.
  • Overcoming Procrastination
    By Neil Fiore

WELLNESS

  • The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
    By The Dalai Lama, et al
  • Don't Take It Personally: The Art of Dealing with Rejection
    By Elayne Savage, Ph.D.
  • A Day At a Time
    Compcare Publications
  • In the Middle of This Road We Call Our Life
    By James W. Jones
  • Live Large!
    By Cheri K. Erdman, Ed.D
  • Living With Spirit In a Material World
    By Jeffrey Blum, Ph.D.
  • Living Your Bigger Story: The Practice of Self-Remembrance
    By Jacqueline Small
  • No More Sleepless Nights by Peter Hauri, Ph.D. and Shirley Linde, Ph.D.
  • Peace, Love and Healing
    By Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.
  • Soaring Through Setbacks
    By Cheryl Perlitz
  • Living a Life That Matters
    By Harold S. Kushner
  • Live Large!
    By Cheri K. Erdman, EdD
  • No More Sleepless Nights
    By Peter Hauri, Ph.D. and Shirley Linde, Ph.D.
  • Stirring the Waters
    By Janell Moon
  • You’re Stronger Than You Think
    By Peter Ubel, M.D.

WOMEN'S ISSUES

  • Appetites
    By Caroline Knapp
  • Eat, Pray, Love
    By Elizabeth Gilbert
  • The Heart of a Woman
    By Maya Angelou
  • Mediatations for Women Who Do Too Much
    By Anne Wilson Schaef
  • Remembering Mother, Finding Myself
    By Patricia Commins
  • Women's Moods
    By Deborah Sichel, M.D., and Jeanne Watson Driscoll, M.S., R.N., C.S