MERINDA’s BOOK SHELF: Top Picks
If you like to read, bibliotherapy is a great way to deepen your understanding of your particular problem and possible solutions and enhance your experience within treatment. You can read these on your own, or in conjunction with ongoing counseling sessions. By topic, here are some of the books I’ve found most useful.
Marriage and Couples
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by Dr. Sue Johnson
Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships by Dr. Sue Johnson
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country’s Foremost Relationship Expert by Dr. John Gottman
Parenting
Parenting From the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive by Dr. Daniel J. Siegel and Mary Hartzell
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind by Dr. Daniel J. Siegel and Dr. Tina Payne Bryson
No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind by Dr. Daniel J. Siegel and Dr. Tina Payne Bryson
The Grown-Up’s Guide to Teenage Humans: How to Decode Their Behavior, develop Unshakable Trust, and Raise a Respectable Adult by Josh Shipp
Blended Families
The StepFamily Handbook: From Dating, to Getting Serious, to Forming a “Blended Family” by Karen Bonnell and Dr. Patricia Papernow