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Self Help Resources Available in Counseling Services
Registered students are welcome to borrow free-of-charge resources from our Self-Help Library. These resources are not designed as a substitute for personal counseling. Counseling Services recommends them as sources of information but does not necessarily endorse the information contained within them. This information is not intended to replace the advice of a healthcare professional
Alphabetical Listing of Books by Topic:
Addiction
- A Million Little Pieces
- By James Frey
Adjusting To College
- 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-Wh10ite - Letting Go: A Parents’ Guide To Understanding The College Years
By Karen Levin Coburn & Madge Lawrence Treeger - Living the College Life
By Ken Paulsen - 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
Alcohol and Substance Abuse
- Addict in the Family By Beverly Conyers
- Addiction Workbook: A Step-By-Step Guide to Quitting Alcohol &Drugs By Patrick Fanning & John O’Neill
- Addictive Thinking: Why Do We lie to Ourselves? By Abraham J. Twerski, M.D.
- Adult Children of Alcoholics By Janet Geringer Wolitz, Ed.D.
- Afraid to Live…Afraid to Die: Emotional Health Thru 12 Steps By Pat O.
- Alateen – Hope for Children of Alcoholics By Al-Anon
- Alcoholics Anonymous: The Big Book By Alcoholics Anonymous
- Always Aware: Back to Basics, The 12-Step Plan to Recovery By James S. Cusack
- Another Chance: Hope and Health for the Alcoholic Family By Sharon Wegscheider Cruse
- Beer, Booze, and Books: A Sober Look at Higher Education By Jim Matthews
- Buzzed By Cynthia Kuhn, PhD, Scott Swartzwelder, PhD., and Wilkie Wilson, PhD
- Chalk Talks on Alcohol By Fr. Joseph C. Martin
- Children of Alcoholism: A Survivor’s Manual By Judith S. Seixas, Geraldine Youcha
- Codependent No More By Melody Beattie
- Courage to Be Me: Living with Alcoholism By Al-Anon
- Cracked: Life on the Edge in a Rehab Clinic By Dr. Drew Pinsky
- Cracked: Putting Broken Lives Together Again
- Decisions: A Call to Action (Drug Prevention in Schools) By Seymour Eiseman, Robert A. Eiseman
- Drinking: A Love Story By Caroline Knapp
- From Binge to Blackout: A Mother and Son Struggle with Teen Drinking By Chris Volkmann, Toren Volkmann
- Healing the Shame that Binds You By John Bradshaw
- Holding Back: Why We hide the Truth About Ourselves By Marie Lindquist
- It Will Never Happen To Me: Children of Alcoholics By Claudia Black, PH.D., M.S.W.
- Living Sober: Some Methods AA Members Use for Not Drinking By Alcoholics Anonymous
- Moments of Clarity By Christopher Kennedy Lawford
- No More Letting Go By Debra Jay
- Perfect Daughters – Adult Daughters of Alcoholics By Robert J. Ackerman, Ph.D
- Recovery from Addiction By John Finnegan, Daphne Grat
- Recovery from Alcoholism By Jerone D. Levin
- Resisting 12-Step Coercion By Stanton Peele, Ph.D., Charles Bufe
- Sex, Drugs and Flunking Out By Joel Epstein
- Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood By Koren Zailckas
- Stage II Recovery: Life Beyond Addiction By Earnie Larsen
- Step Zero: Getting to Recovery By Arnold Washton, Ph.D.
- Street Drugs By The Publishers Group
- Strong Choices, Weak Choices By Gayle Rosellini, Mark Worden
- The Addictive Personality: Roots, Rituals, Recovery By Craig Nakken
- The Education of Character: Lessons for Beginners By Will Keim, Ph.D.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions By Alcoholics Anonymous
- Twelve Steps to Self-Parenting By Philip Oliver-Diaz, Patricia A. O’Gorman
- When Enough is Enough: Successful Intervention Guide By Candy Finnigan, Sean Finnigan
- When Society Becomes an Addict By Anne Wilson Schaef
- When Your Parent Drinks Too Much By Eric Ryerson
- Willpower’s Not Enough: Recovering from Addictions By Arnold Washton, Ph.D., Donna Boundy, M.S.W.
- Women & Drugs: Getting Hooked, Getting Clean By Emanuel Peluso, Lucy Silvay Peluso
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 Tafrate, 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.
- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg
- Rage By Ronald T. Potter-Efron, MSW, Ph.D.
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
- An Introduction to Coping with Anxiety By Lee Brosan
- An Introduction to Coping with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder By Lee Brosan and Brenda Hogan
- 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
- Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am? By John Powell
- 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 Chronic Illness By Cheri Register
- One 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
Christian Resources
- Self-Injury – When pain Feels Good
- By Edward T. Welch
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.
- An Introduction to Coping with Depression By Lee Borsan and Brenda Hogan
- 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.,
- The Body Image Workbook By Thomas F. Cash, Ph.D
- Body Wars: Making Peace with Women’s Bodies By Margo Maine, Ph.D.
- Breaking Free from Emotional Eating By Geneen Roth
- Dying To Be Thin By Ira M. Sacker, M.D. & Marc A. Zimmer, Ph.D.
- Eating Disorders for Dummies By Susan Schulherr, LCSW
- 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.
- Hunger Pains: The Modern Woman’s Tragic Quest for Thinness 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
- A Gift to Myself By Charles L. Whitfield, M.D.
- Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self By David M. Brodzinsky, Ph.D., Marshall D. Schechter, M.D., Robin Marantz Henig
- Daughters of Madness: Growing Up and Older with a Mentally Ill Mother By Susan Nathiel
- Fathers and male friends By Alan W. McEvoy, Jeff B. Brookings
- Healing the Child Within by Charles L. Whitfield, M.D.
- My Parent’s Keeper: Adult Children of the Emotionally Disturbed By Eva Marian Brown, M.S.W.
- The Love They Lost: Living in the Legacy of Our Parent’s Divorce By Stephanie Staal
- When Do the Good Things Start?
- By Abraham J. Twerski, M.D.
- 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
- Letting Go of Shame By Ronald Potter-Efron and Patricia Potter-Efron
- Live Until You Die By Helen Daniel
- Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s By John Elder Robison
- Man’s Search for Meaning By Viktor E. Frankl
- Psalms Of My Life By Joseph Bayly
- Martial Arts By Peter Lewis
- Parables for Personal Growth: Tales for Your Healing Journey by Melinda Reinicke
- Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties By Alexandra Robbins & Abby Wilner
- The Self-Help Support Group Directory By Anita M. Broderick and Amy Rodenbaugh for St. Clare’s Health System
- The Self-Help Support Group Directory by Anita Broderick, Wendy Rodenbaugh
- 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
- Tuesdays with Morrie By Mitch Albom
- 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
- A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss By Gerald L. Sittser
- 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
- Tuesdays with Morrie By Mitch Albom
- 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: Meditations 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
Issues of Race
- And don’t call me a racist! Selected and arranged by Ella Maze
- Daily Cornbread By Stephanie Stokes Oliver
- Healing Racial Trauma by Sheila Wise Rowe
- 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
LGBTQ+ Issues
- Brave Face: How I Survived Growing Up, Coming Out, and Depression by Shaun David Hutchinson
- Gender: A Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele
- Pride: A Celebration in Quotes, Edited by Caitlyn McNeill
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
- Healing the Abuse Of Trauma: 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
PTSD
- The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook By Glen R. Schiraldi, Ph.D
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 Assualt and Harrassment
- 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)
- The Courage to Heal – A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse By Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
- 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
- 2011 – A Book of Grace-Filled Days By Margaret Silf
- 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
- (The) Complete Idiot’s Guide to Managing Stress By Jeff Davidson
- 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
- The Stress Owner’s Manual by Ed Boenisch, PH.D., C. Michele Haney, PH.D.
- 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 Worrywart’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
- The Courage to Heal – A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
- By: Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
- Eat, Pray, Love
- By Elizabeth Gilbert
- Forbidden Grief: The Unspoken Pain of Abortion
- By Theresa Burke with David C. Reardon
- The Complete Handbook for College Women
- by Carol Weinberg
- The Heart of a Woman
- By Maya Angelou
- Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much
- By Anne Wilson Schaef
- Real Gorgeous: The Truth about Body and Beauty
- By Kaz Cooke
- 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