| Recommended Reading List
Traumatic Brain Injury
1. A Family’s Anguish by J. Elizabeth Brown
2. Brainlash: Maximize Your Recovery From Mild Brain Injury by Gail L. Denton, PhD.
3. Children with Traumatic Brain Injury: A Parent’s Guide by Lisa Schoenbrodt
4. Coping with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury by Diane Roberts Stoler
5. Foundations of Sport-Related Brain Injuries by Semyon Slobounov and Wayne Sebastianelli (Eds.)
6. In Search of Wings: A Journey Back From Traumatic Brain Injury by Beverly Bryant
7. Meditations on Brain Injury by Mike Strand
8. Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Workbook: Your Program for Regaining Cognitive Function by Douglas J. Mason
9. Official Patient’s Sourcebook on Traumatic Brain Injury: Revised and Updated Directory by Icon Health Publications
10. The Behavioral and Emotional Complications of Traumatic Brain Injury by Simon F. Crowe
Websites: www.tbiresourceguide.com, www.biausa.org
Alzheimer's Disease
1. Alzheimer's Early Stages: First Steps for Family, Friends and Caregivers by: Daniel Kuhn, David A. Bennett
2. The Alzheimer's Health Care Handbook by: Mary S. Mittelman, Cynthia Epstein
3. Coping With Care by: Lyn Roche
4. Speaking Our Minds: Personal Reflections from Individuals With Alzheimer's by: Lisa Snyder
5. There's Still a Person in There: The Complete Guide to Treating and Coping With Alzheimer's by: Michael Castleman
6. Learn to Speak Alzheimer's: A Groundbreaking Approach for Everyone Dealing With the Disease by: Joanne Koenig
7. Alzheimer's: A Caregiver's Guide and Sourcebook, 3rd Edition by: Howard Gruetzner
8. Mayo Clinic on Alzheimer's by: Ronald C. Peterson, M.D.
Websites: Alzheimer's Disease Education & Referral Center, Alzheimer's Disease Resource Center, Alzheimer's Disease Overview
Support Groups: Alzheimer's Association
Bipolar Disorder
1. The Bipolar Survival Guide by: David J. Miklowitz
2. Surviving Manic Depression: A Manual on Bipolar Disorder for Patients, Families, and Providers by: E. Fuller Torrey, Michael B. Knable
3. New Hope for People with Bipolar Disorder by: Jan Fawcett, M.D., Bernard Golden Ph.D., Nancy Rosenfield
4. Why Am I Up, Why Am I Down? by: Roger Granet, Elizabeth Ferber
5. The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhoods Most Misunderstood Disorder by: Demitri Papolos, M.D., Janice Papolos
6. Coping With Bipolar Disorder by: Steven Jones, Peter Haywood, Dominic Lam
7. An Unquiet Mind by: Kay Jamison
8. Touched With Fire by: Kay Redfield Jamison
9. Manic Depression: How to Live While Loving a Manic Depressive by: Lynn Bradley
Websites: Pendulum Resources , National Institute of Mental Health, Mental Help Net
Support Groups: Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, Support 4 Hope, Find the Light (on line group), National Alliance Mentally Ill, Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation
ADHD/ADD
1. The ADD Answer by: Dr. Frank Lawlis
2. Driven to Distraction by: Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey
3. You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy by: Kate Kelly, Peggy Ramundo
4. Add-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life by: Judith Kolberg, Kathleen Nadeau
5. The ADHD Parenting Handbook: Practical Advise for Parents by: Colleen Alexander-Roberts
6. How to Reach and Teach ADD/ADHD Children by: Sandra F. Reif
7. Adult ADD by: David B. Sudderth M.D., Joseph Kandel M.D.
8. Living with ADD by: M. Susan Roberts, Gerard J. Jansen, Susan Roberts
9. Beyond Ritalin: Facts About Medication and Other Starategies for Helping Children, Adolescents, and Adults With Attention Deficit Disorders by: Stephen W. Garber
10. Taking Charge of ADHD by: Russell Barkley
11. Women with ADD by: Sari Solden
12. Journeys Through Adulthood by: Sari Solden
13. Windows into the A.D.D. Mind: Understanding and Treating Attention Deficit Disorders in the Everyday Lives of Children, Adolescents and Adults by: Daniel G. Amen
Websites: CHADD, ADD Consults, ADD / ADHD Directory , Attention Deficit Disorder Help Center
Support Groups: Adders.Org, CHADD, ADDAG (303) 675-5337
Depression
1. Why Am I Up, Why Am I Down? by: Roger Granet
2. A Mood Apart: The thinker's Guide to Emotion and It's Disorders by: Peter C. Whybrow
3. The Mood Cure: The 4-Step Program to Rebalance Your Emotional Chemistry and Rediscover Your Natural Sense of Well Being by:Julia Ross
4. Manic Depression: How to Live While Loving a Manic Depressive by: Lynn Bradley
5. Riding the Roller Coaster: Living With Mood Disorders by: Marja Bergen
6. Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Medication Can't Give You by: Richard O'Conner
7. I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression by: Terrence Real
8. Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison by: Dorothy Rowe
9. Recovering From Depression: A Workbook for Teens by: Mary Ellen Copeland
Websites: Mental Health Net, National Institute of Mental Health
Support Groups: Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, Depressed Anonymous
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
1. Getting Control: Overcoming Your Obsessions and Compulsions by: Lee Baer
2. The OCD Workbook: Your Guide to Breaking Free From Obsessive Compulsive Disorder by: Bruce M. Hyman Ph.D, Cherry Pedrick R.N., Bruce Hyman
3. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well by: Fred Penzel
4. Stop Obsessing! : How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions by: Reid Wilson, Edna B. Foa
5. Why Does Everything Have to Be Perfect? Understanding Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by: Lynn Shackman, Shelalagh
6. Tormenting Thoughts and Secret Rituals: The Hidden Epidemic of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder by: Ian Osborn
Websites: National Institute of Mental Health, Internet Mental Health, SupportPath.com
Support Groups: OCD Support Group (303) 443-4591
Anxiety Disorder
1. Don't Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks by: R. Reid Wilson
2. From Panic to Power: Proven Techniques to Calm Your Anxieties, Conquer Your Fears, & Put You In Control of Your Life by: Lucinda Bassett
3. Hope and Help for Your Nerves by: Claire Weekes
4. Overcoming Anxiety, Panic, Depression by: James Gardner
5. Living With Anxiety by: Bob Montgomery
6. Beyond Anxiety and Phobia: A Step By-Step Guide to Lifetime Recovery by: Edmund J. Bourne, Ph.D.
7. How to Control Your Anxiety Before it Controls You by: Albert Ellis, Ph.D.
8. Anxiety and Panic Attacks: Their Cause and Cure: The Five-Point-Life-Plus Program for Conquering Fear by: Robert Handly
Websites: Anxiety Disorders Association of America, National Institute of Mental Health, Mental Help Net
Support Groups: Open Door Outreach, Inc., Social Anxiety Group (www.anxietynetwork.com)
General Recommendations:
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, Daniel Amen, M.D.
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