resources
Information and local resources are listed below. If you’ve found a certain resource to be helpful to you or your family, please share your experience with me so I might add it to the following resources.community resources
The following resources are available to the community as well as helping professionals and service providers.
- 24-Hour Crisis Line: 1.206.461.3222 or 1.800.621.6040
- Teen Line: 1.800.852.8336 or Teen Link Help Line: 1.206.461.4922, Open 6-10pm Nightly
- Child Protective Services (CPS): 1.800.609.8764 or 1.800.422.7517
The following websites are designed to offer topical information and resources.
- American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy: www.aamft.org
- Alcoholics Anonymous: www.alcoholics-anonymous.org
- Al-Anon and Alateen: www.al-anon.alateen.org
- Narcotics Anonymous: www.na.org
- National Institute of Mental Health: www.nimh.nih.gov
- Psychology Today: www.psychologytoday.com
I encourage you to explore the topics below for reading resources most valuable to you and your family. For additional resources, you may also enjoy viewing recommendations listed on the above mentioned websites.
adolescence, growing up and friendships
- Coping With Cliques (S. Sprague)
- Cycle Savvy: The Smart Teen’s Guide to the Mysteries of the Body (T. Weschler)
- Girlwise: How to Be Confident, Capable, Cool, and in Control (J. DeVillers)
- How to Win Friends and Influence People For Teen Girls (D. Carnegie)
- Queen Bees and WannaBees (J. Wiseman)
- Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (M. Pipher)
- Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search For Self (S. Shandler)
- Beginner’s Guide to Eating Disorder Recovery (N. Kolodny)
- Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight and Your Health (G. Gaesser)
- Body, Beauty, Boys: The Truth About Girls and How We See Ourselves (S. Bragg)
- Biting the Hand That Starves You (D. Epston et al.)
- Dying to Be Thin: Understanding and Defeating Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia (Sacker and Zimmer)
- Girl’s Guide To Loving Yourself (D. Mastromarino)
- Hunger Pains: The Modern Woman’s Tragic Quest from Thinness (M. Pipher)
- Just A Little Too Thin: How to Pull Your Child Back From the Brink of An Eating Disorder (Strober and Schneider)
- My Feet Aren’t Ugly (D. Beck)
- No Body’s Perfect (K. Kirberger)
- Overcoming Overeating (Hirschmann and Munter)
- The Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa (H. Bruch)
- When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies (Hirschmann and Munter)
- Change Your Brain, Change Your Life (D. Amen)
- The Dance of Fear (H. Lerner)
- Freeing Your Child from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (T. Chansky)
- Fighting Invisible Tigers: A Stress Management Guide For Teens (E. Hipp)
- From Panic To Power (L. Bassett)
- How to Control Your Anxiety Before It Controls You (A. Ellis)
- Loving Someone with OCD (Landsman, et al.)
- OCD in Children and Adolescents (March and Mulle)
- Stressed-Out Girls: Helping Them Thrive in the Age of Pressure (R. Cohen-Sandler)
- Talking Back to OCD (March and Benton)
- The Anxiety Workbook For Teens (L. Schab)
- What To Do When You Worry Too Much (Huebner and Matthews)
- Beyond the Blues: A Workbook To Help Teens Overcome Depression (L. Schab)
- Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation (S. Levenkron)
- Healing Depression and Bipolar Without Drugs: Inspiring Stories of Restoring Mental Health (Guyoi and Sinatra)
- How You Can Survive When They're Depressed (A. Sheffield)
- Ten Steps to Take Charge of Your Emotional Life (E. Wood)
- The Disappearing Girl: Learning the Language of Teenage Depression (L. Machoian)
- Understanding Depression: What We Know and What You Can Do About It (R. DePaulo Jr.)
- When Nothing Matters Anymore: A Guide for Depressed Teens (B. Cobain)
- Boyology: A Teen Girl’s Crash Course in All Things Boy (Smith and Burningham)
- Dateable: Are You? Are They? (J. Lookadoo)
- Relationships (L. and L. Parrott)
- The Ten Commandments of Dating (B. Young)
- What Smart Teenagers Know About Dating, Relationships, and Sex (D. Hatchell)
- But, I Love Him (J. Murray)
- In Love and In Danger (B. Levy)
- Invisible Girls: The Truth About Sexual Abuse (Feuereisen and Pincus)
- Saving Beauty From the Beast (Crompton and Kessner)
- Sweetie, How Much Should You Give Up To Keep That Relationship (D. Palardy)
- What Parents Need to Know About Dating Violence (B. Levy)
- Getting To Calm: Cool-Headed Strategies For Parenting Tweens and Teens (L. Kastner and J. Wyatt)
- Girl in the Mirror: Mothers and Daughters in the Years of Adolescence (Snyderman and Streep)
- Helping Your Struggling Teenager (L. Parrott)
- I’m Not Mad, I Just Hate You: A New Understanding of Mother-Daughter Conflict (Cohen-Sandler and Silver)
- Raising Strong Daughters (J. Gadeberg)
- Reclaiming Our Daughters: What Parenting a Pre-Teen Taught Me About Real Girls (K. Stabiner)
- Staying Connected To Your Teenager: How To Keep Them Talking and How To Hear What They’re Really Saying (M. Riera)
- The Mother-Daughter Project (Hamkins and Schultz)
- The Tween Years: A Parent’s Guide for Surviving Those Terrific, Turbulent, and Trying Times (D. Corwin)
- The Wonder of Girls (M. Gurian)
- Uncommon Sense for Parents With Teenagers (M. Riera)
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