A Guide to Asperger Syndrome
With the incredible proliferation of books about Asperger Syndrome, it is gratifying to read one that is written by a well respected researcher in the fi…
A Parent's Guide to Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism
The stated goal of A Parent's Guide is to help parents give their children with Asperger Syndrome or High-Functioning Autism (AS/HFA) the best cha…
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A Toss Of The Dice
A Toss of the Dice is an absorbing collection of anecdotal stories, crafted beautifully by practicing pediatrician Dr. Natasha Hays. As explic…
A User Guide to the GF/CF Diet for Autism, Asperger Syndrome and AD/HD
Luke Jackson, who is 12 years old and diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, is the author of A User Guide to the GF/CF Diet for Autism, Asperger Syndrome…
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A Walk in the Rain With a Brain
A Walk in the Rain with a Brain might be thought of as a young child's picture book equivalent of Mel Levine's A Mind at a Time and The…
ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life
If you're going to write a book on organization, the first thing you should do is be sure the book itself is well organized. In this respect the aut…
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ADHD in the Schools: Assessment and Intervention Strategies
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has been referred to as the disorder du jour. It is difficult to go through a week without seeing an art…
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Adolescent Depression
This is an intelligent and well-written guide with a substantial amount of detail especially about medications and how they work. Mondimore first outli…
Alpha Girls
Alpha girls are described as the "third wave of feminism" and possibly the first generation of women who can and will "reap the benefits o…
Another Planet
What in the world is going on in our nation’s high schools? That question was on all of our minds after the Columbine shooters swept away our illus…
Antisocial Behavior in Children and Adolescents
This book is the result of an effort of more than forty years, at the University of Oregon, to identify causes and treatments of antisocial behavior in c…
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Asperger Syndrome and Your Child
This book comes complete with a resource list, bibliography, index, and a reading list, and is hailed on the cover as an indispensable book for parents,…
Asperger Syndrome, Adolescence, and Identity
This is a welcome addition to the growing library about Asperger Syndrome. Compared with most books, this takes a slightly different approach to the subj…
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Attention Deficit Disorder
Thomas Brown is already known in the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) world for his standardized questionnaires that people fill out to de…
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was first identified over 100 years ago, but it remains an intensely controversial entity. It's commo…
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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Larry B. Silver's handbook, currently in its third edition, claims to be aimed at "health and mental health professionals." Written in a straig…
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Autism - The Eighth Colour of the Rainbow
In a captivating book, entitled Autism -- The Eighth Color of the Rainbow, Florica Stone passionately delivers the message that non-autistic pe…
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Autism and Me
Autism and Me is a 20-minute DVD: Rory Hoy, who was 18 when he made this film, has autism and he explains what it is like. He says he is d…
Autistic Spectrum Disorders
In the preface the author, Mitzi Waltz states, "the intention of this book is to bring together all the basic information" about Autism Spectru…
Bad Girl
Abby Vona was 15 when her father took her to a facility in Louisville, Tennessee to straighten her out. Bad Girl tells of her 328 days locked up…
Been There, Done That? DO THIS!
In the book Been There, Done That? DO THIS! author Sam Obitz states, "Fewer and fewer of us are being raised in supportive fam…
Before I Die
Tessa's little brother Cal tells her "I'm going to miss you," when she makes a joke, because they both know she is going to die soon.&n…
Beyond Appearance
This tome appears to be more of a textbook than a casual read. It has sixteen chapters, all written by different people and varies widely in writing styl…
Bipolar Disorders
One of the cornerstones of effective pediatric psychiatric treatment is education. In practice, education is sometimes a casualty of the time limits facing…
Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development
This extensive (761 pages) text on Childhood Cognitive Development contains a series of chapters (27 in all) written by many of the top names in t…
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Body Image, Eating Disorders, and Obesity
With the startling statistic that ‘only one half of patients with anorexia nervosa recover and that up to 25% of patients are disabled severely by c…
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Body Image, Eating Disorders, and Obesity in Youth
Dramatic increases in childhood obesity have many health professionals concerned. Future health complications of obese children include heart disease, hi…
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Breathing Underwater
This novel for young adults focuses on the issue of violence in relationships. The basic idea is simple: 16-year old Nick has beaten his girlfriend Caitl…
Bullying and Teasing
Bullying and Teasing: Social Power in Children's Groups, published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (NY) in 2003 is yet another book that addr…
Bullying Prevention
The authors' stated goal for writing this book was to provide applied and practical strategies, but not to provide prescriptions. They recogniz…
Can't Eat, Won't Eat
Can’t Eat, Won’t Eat: Dietary Difficulties and the Autistic Spectrum Disorders by Brenda Legge is a book compiled mainly of case studie…
Caring for a Child with Autism
Ives and Munro have set a lofty goal for themselves in writing a practical guide to caring for children with autism. For the most part they succeed in th…
Children with Emerald Eyes
A reviewer does not lightly admit to being reduced to tears by a book but I have to confess to having shed a tear or two at several points during the rea…
Childrens Dreaming and the Development of Consciousness
In a sense, one can see in the politics of contemporary dream research a microcosm of the tensions found in the science of psychology as a whole. The concern with being a “real science” like biology or chemistry is ever present. The near shame a…
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Communication Issues In Autism And Asperger Syndrome
One of the greatest challenges to communicating with people with autism is our preconceived notion…
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Concise Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
I quite like the concise guide series. This is the third that I have had the opportunity to peruse, and I am never disappointed with the breadth of info…
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Consuming Kids
This is a first-rate book -- well researched and passionately written. The author is Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Associate Di…
Crosses
Crosses is a novel for young adults about Nancy, a Long Island high school girl who cuts crosses into her skin as a way of relieving anxiety and a…
Demystifying the Autistic Experience
Demystifying the Autistic Experience is meant to be an insider's revelation to the rest of us about what it is like to live on the autism spectrum…
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Doing School
Though many consider John Dewey as perhaps the most prolific philosopher of education to date, he would be the first to remind us that most of our learni…
Early Intervention Programs and Policies
The Praeger Child Psychology and Mental Health series has previously covered childhood disorders, adolescent disorders and issues for families, sc…
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Eating an Artichoke
When the author’s son was a preschooler his teacher expressed concerned that his social skills were different compared to the other children, that h…
Educating Children With Autism
As anyone who browses the Internet or reads the popular press knows, autism is a topic being increasingly covered. Unfortunately, the scientific validi…
Elijah's Cup
Elijah's Cup: A Family's Journey into the Community and Culture of High Functioning Autism and Asperger's Syndrome is written by Valerie Paradiz…
Emotional and Behavioral Problems of Young Children
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. (Theodore Rubin)…
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Every Girl Tells a Story
This is a nicely produced book with color and black and white photographs and short self-descriptions of eighty-five girls talking about what they have a…
Eye Contact
Eye Contact is a mystery about the murder of 10-year-old Amelia. She was found, stabbed, in some woods opposite her school, with her friend Adam.…
Fast Girls
In Fast Girls, Emily White investigates how some girls in junior high and high schools acquire the label of slut, how it affects them at the time,…
Forever Young
Beginning with a youthful bang and ending in a whimper, Marcel Danesi's Forever Young, is billed as providing "concrete answers on how the Forever…
Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome
How any thirteen year old could write such a literate, funny and informative book as this is a complete mystery to me. Luke Jackson has been diagnosed a…
Freewill
Freewill by Chris Lynch is a confusing book about a confused young man. It deals with the long-term emotional impact of the death of a teen’s parents and how the death/suicide of his classmates provoke a crisis as he tries to cope with his mounting l…
Girl in the Mirror
Girl in the Mirror is addressed to mothers about to embark on the challenge of raising adolescent daughters. It is not, strictly speaking, a prof…
Girlfighting
The thesis of this book is that 'girlfighting' is a result of girls having to live in a patriarchal society where male authority is everything and femini…
GirlWise
GirlWise, by Julia DeVillers is true to its self-proclaimed title, "The Ultimate Teen Girl Bible." Aimed at empowering teens to be &quo…
Handbook of Preschool Mental Health
The last two decades have seen a geometric increase in the number of compounds available to treat mental illnesses, but not a single one was designed or…
Healing ADD
Healing ADD is aimed at parents who suspect or know that they have a child with attention deficit. It sets out cases of children with this problem…
Helping Children Cope With Disasters and Terrorism
This lengthy book is the work of many authors, with good editorial direction from the four editors. It addresses a great many situations in which childre…
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Helping Parents, Youth, and Teachers Understand Medications for Behavioral and Emotional Problems
This resource book is a collection of handouts about psychotropic medications for doctors to give out. It is in three sections, for Parents, Youth, and…
Hollow Kids
This book has a very straightforward thesis – the Self-Esteem Movement, which made raising the esteem of mainly young people the panacea of all per…
I Am Not Joey Pigza
I Am Not Joey Pigza is a more complex novel for young people than the previous three in the series. Here's the short version of Joey&#…
Identifying Hyperactive Children
ADHD has now become widely accepted as a clinical disorder. Although Peter Conrad's study was initially published in 1976 it still remains relevant and…
If Your Adolescent Has an Eating Disorder
If Your Adolescent Has an Eating Disorder is a distinguished member of the family of The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands' Adolescen…
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Incorporating Social Goals in the Classroom
Like many experts in the field of autism and Asperger Syndrome, Rebecca Moyes has a child with the diagnosis. As a teacher who was driven by necessity to…
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Intrusive Parenting
The APA has published a 308-page book on research on parenting styles, edited by Brian K. Barber. The book looks at two types of parenting: the more harm…
Issues for Families, Schools and Communities
Right from childhood through adolescence, complex biological, psychological and sociological forces continuously interact with each other to determine ho…
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Jake Riley
The story Jake Riley: Irreparably Damage by Rebecca Fjelland Davis is a story centering on the problems experienced by a newly released juvenile d…
Joey Pigza Loses Control
It’s summer, and Joey Pigza’s mother has to work, so she has reluctantly agreed to Joey’s idea that he visits his father. Joey has recentl…
Juvenile-Onset Schizophrenia
When I was being trained, two decades ago, my professors in Psychiatry made it plain that childhood schizophrenia was not only rare, as far as they were…
Learning and Behavior Problems in Asperger Syndrome
Asperger Syndrome (AS) is a curious disorder often misdiagnosed. A 44-year-old woman of my acquaintance, for instance, was categorized at school as merel…
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Learning Disorders and Disorders of the Self in Children and Adolescents
To the practicing clinician dealing with individuals labeled learning disabled or attention deficited, there often seems only two roads one can take. If…
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Learning Outside the Lines
I was attracted to the title of this book in the hope of further understanding and learning novel solutions for the challenges associated with living with a…
Liberation's Children
This book consists of a series of essays published at various times during the past ten years. Its theme is well stated by the author in her introductio…
Life As We Know It
Life As We Know It is part memoir about Bérubé's son Jamie who has Down syndrome and part academic discussion of mental disability, dela…
Loser
Loser is an unusual book, because it does not just describe the life of a boy, but reads like a case history. The book starts with Donald Zinkoff…
Making ADD Work
Making ADD Work shrilly trumpets the inspiring message that working adults with attention deficit disorder ("ADD") characteristically…
Making American Boys
Kenneth B. Kidd's Making American Boys is a carefully researched yet uneven discussion of the role of the "American Boy" in US culture o…
Mastering Anger and Aggression
Mastering Anger and Aggression: The Brazelton Way is a wonderful contribution to the literature on parenting, focusing, particularly, on angry and…
Mind Fields
This book is number sixteen in the Adolescent Cultures, School and Society series. This series has an overtly ideological aim, which is to study e…
Myths of Childhood
This work by Joel Paris, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University, appears in some respects to echo some of the positions taken in Judith R…
No Child Left Different
Research suggests that about one-tenth of U.S. children have an impairing mental illness. About 10 million children and adolescents take antidepressants,…
No Two Alike
Children are different from each other both when they are young and after they mature. Why is that? There was a time when no one hesitated with the ans…
Not Much Just Chillin'
Not Much Just Chillin' tells the stories of a number of children at a suburban Middle School in Columbia, Maryland. Washington Post educat…
Odd Girl Out
Ever wonder what white, middle-class, mid-grade girls are studying in school? In Odd Girl Out, we find out just what the real curriculum is for th…
Odd Girl Speaks Out
The idea that children and adolescents are frequently horrible to each other is hardly new, but it has received a great deal of attention in recent years…
One in Thirteen
One in Thirteen is based on articles on teen suicide by Jessica Porter that appeared in Education Week in April 2000. It is a slim book wi…
Ophelia's Mom
Nina Shandler, Ed.D., knows from whence she speaks. She raised two daughters who are both healthily out of their teens and survived the complete exposure of…
Our Journey Through High Functioning Autism and Asperger Syndrome
In spite of the roadmap in the title, this is not a systematic examination of the lives of people with high functioning autism and Asperger Syndrome, but…
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Out of the Woods
Out of the Woods is fueled by a burning desire to garner fuller understanding of the psychological phenomenon of "resilience". T…
Parenting Children With ADHD
Parenting Children with ADHD is a nurturing book which should implant, in readers' minds, a heightened level of practical knowledge and underst…
Parenting Your Out-Of-Control Teenager
This book shows on the front of the dust cover “7 steps to re-establish authority and reclaim love” and all my prejudices went off at once. Was…
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Pediatric Psychopharmacology
A large body of research literature exists on the topic of treatments for adults with psychiatric disorders. Although this research does not always provide clear-cut answers to clinical questions, by and large one can find a published study or opinion on…
Pediatric Psychopharmacology
Anyone who works with children in the 21st century deals with psychiatric drugs. Teachers observe the effects of Ritalin and Adderall on their students' disruptive behavior, while parents look for signs of improvement in their depressed sons and daugh…
Pediatric Psychopharmacology
Anyone who works with children in the 21st century deals with psychiatric drugs. Teachers observe the effects of Ritalin and Adderall on their students&#…
People with Hyperactivity
This book is quite extraordinary in its clarity, its broad coverage of the subject and comprehensive discussion of ADHD. People With Hyperactivity: U…
Phobic and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents
As with so many recent works, these editors set out to "bridge the gap" between evidence based, scientific approaches, the academic royal road…
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Praising Boys Well
Aimed at parents and teachers concerned with children of all ages, this book certainly provides the reader with a series of useful, child-centered advice…
Praising Girls Well
To the reader who might have thought that praising another person was easy work, and often simply satisfied by saying "Well Done!" or "Ver…
Problem Child or Quirky Kid?
In this book, the wife and husband co-authors, Rita and John Sommers-Flannagan, have promised to "Help Kids Who Don't Fit In, Can't Fit In, Can't…
Problem Girls
A quick look through the contributors list will show clearly that there are no male authors inside this black covered book. Lloyd herself is a senior le…
Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents
With good credentials as the Professor of Psychology at UCLA, and director of the research network in youth mental health care paid for by the MacArthur…
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Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
Helmut Remschmidt is an internationally renowned child psychiatrist and currently serves as president of the pre-eminent international child psychiatry o…
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Raising Blaze
Raising Blaze is a rich memoir by Debra Ginsberg chronicling the first thirteen years of her son Blaze's life. During his birth, which was overdue, the…
Raising Resilient Children
There are no surprises in Raising Resilient Children. This is due in part to the fact that the authors take credit for teaching parents how to…
Redressing the Emperor
John S. Lyons' thoughtful commentary on children's mental health care systems, as well as his contemplations on the ways in which these systems can impro…
Reducing Adolescent Risk
Mental health at this time of its scientist-practitioner renewal is nevertheless polarized around issues of treatment for children and adolescent. Contr…
Rethinking ADHD
It is always gratifying to see Australians writing books, and the above authors between them are frequent gratifiers of all Australians, publishing as fr…
Reweaving the Autistic Tapestry
Lisa Blakemore-Brown has written a helpful and detailed book about children in the autism, aspergers, and attention deficit hyperactivity spectrum of dev…
Ritalin is Not the Answer Action Guide
The book title Ritalin is not the answer-action guide compelled me to look it over and give it a chance. Being a psychologist, tired of medical m…
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Sexual Teens, Sexual Media
This book is a collection of eleven articles plus two introductory pieces about the media and teenagers' sexuality. The editors are, respect…
Should I Medicate My Child?
Lawrence Diller's new book Should I Medicate My Child? presents straightforward advice for parents about their options when their children face em…
Snapshots of Autism
An excellent book from start to finish, this story chronicles one year in the life of an autistic eleven-year-old boy. Written with candor and honesty b…
Staying Connected to Your Teenager
Even though I work with teenagers alone and with families, I never assume I can be objective when it comes to my own family. Therefore, my husband and…
Stick Figure
In the Epilogue to Stick Figure, Lori Gottlieb explains that she was 29 years old when she discovered her old childhood diaries, and the book is b…
Straight Talk about Your Child's Mental Health
As the title implies, Straight Talk about Your Child's Mental Health is aimed at parents concerned about their children's emotional and behavioral…
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Taking Charge of ADHD, Revised Edition
I was lucky enough to be able to read Russell Barkley's (2000) Taking Charge of ADHD around the same time as David Stein's…
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The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook Of Child And Adolescent Psychiatry
This third edition of The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is a large book with 1114 pages. The index…
The Boy Who Loved Windows
This is a deeply moving book which had the reviewer in tears on several occasions. It is the true story of a young mother who has a daughter of four when…
The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander
The Bully, The Bullied and The Bystander by Barbara Coloroso is one of the many books that have been published recently on this topic. There has…
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Christopher Boone is 15-years-old and has autism. He lives with his father, explaining to the reader in a very matter-of-fact way that his mother died th…
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The Depressed Child
Douglas A. Riley’s book, The Depressed Child: A Parent’s Guide for Rescuing Kids, explores the nature of depression along with some of t…
The Dragons of Autism
The title of this book is derived from the author's son's deep and enduring interest in dragons €“ the intense sort of interest that is a hallmark of aut…
The Einstein Syndrome
It is ironic how 30 years ago doctors were loath to give parents a diagnosis of autism when presented with a late-talking child, yet now parents must fig…
The Epidemic
(The) trainer would throw the dolphin a fish whenever she did something the trainer wanted her to. But every once in a while €¦ the trainer would thro…
The Hidden Gifts of the Introverted Child
There is so much self-help literature currently available that it cannot be easy for the lay person to know what to buy let alone trust. The Hidden G…
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The Last Normal Child
The past few decades have seen both skyrocketing rates of children diagnosed with psychological disorders and a related rise in prescriptions for psychia…
The Little Monster
I began reading The Little Monster after dinner on a recent evening, intending to finish the first few chapters and then turn to other projects, b…
The Myth of Laziness
Mel Levine is known for his best-selling book A Mind at a Time that promotes a tolerance to the differences between children and a reluctant attit…
The Nurture Assumption
On its face, the idea that early parenting activities could shape the adult whom the child is to become is suspect, even under the strongest tabula rasa ass…
The OASIS Guide to Asperger Syndrome
Asperger Syndrome (AS) is a pervasive developmental disorder characterized by deficits in social interactions, communication and imaginary play skills. C…
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The Real Truth About Teens and Sex
The Real Truth About Teens & Sex is a straightforward book aimed mainly at parents about the beliefs and attitudes of teens about sex. …
The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager
Thomas Hine is a journalist and author of several books, and his history of the social role of American youth is a useful, clearly written account in a s…
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The Survival Guide for Kids With LD*
The Survival Guide for Kids with LD is a simply presented guide written for those dealing with LD or rather "learning differences." Writ…
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Through the Glass Wall
The author, Howard Buten, is a psychotherapist who not only specializes in the study of autism but acts as a performance artist in Paris, a clown-mime in…
Trauma in the Lives of Children
This second edition of Trauma in the Lives of Children is introduced by a sequence of forewords and prefaces, all of which prepare us for a very…
Treatment of Childhood Disorders
Every year, dozens of books come out on the treatment of children with emotional and behavioral problems. The quality of the information is variable, to…
Under the Wolf, Under the Dog
A World Suddenly Black At best teenage years are trying, and at worst they can be devastating and cripple the emerging adult's psyche. If you as…
What about the Kids
What About The Kids by Wallerstein and Blakeslee is a book for all homes experiencing the first throws of major conflict through the final settlin…
What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls
Lynda Madaras’s bestselling book, The What’s Happening to My Body Book for Girls, discusses the biological, psychological and social asp…
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When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder
This is a workbook aimed at parents and caregivers. Natenshon is a psychotherapist and cofounder of an eating disorders clinic. She indicates that the…
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Winnicott On the Child
Perhaps no figure in the history of psychoanalysis embodies as many contradictions as the Briton D.W. Winnicott (1896-1971). Although he worked as a psy…
Worried All the Time
This is a good book, an articulate and readable text to help parents with small families who may be worrying more than is helpful to their children. In A…
Young People and Mental Health
This collection of twelve papers by researchers based in the UK address a variety of mental health concerns for young people. They are grouped into thre…