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Resources for parents considering therapy for their child

Books and Podcasts

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

A communication tool kit that provides a step-by-step approach to improving relationships in your home.

Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

A clear and simple guide for parents facing the everyday challenges of raising children.

Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood

An essential guide to understanding and supporting girls throughout their development.

Good Inside with Dr. Becky

Dr. Becky answers parents’ questions about raising kids.

The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

An insightful and practical approach to understanding children's developing brains and deepening your connection with your kids.

No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

Drawing on research in the field of interpersonal neurobiology, this book shows you how to work with your child’s developing mind, peacefully resolve conflicts, and inspire happiness and strengthen resilience in the family.

Pride and Joy: A Guide to Understanding Your Child's Emotions and Solving Family Problems

Helps parents repair and enrich relationships with their children while helping them establish the rules and limits children really do crave.

The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child

Helps parents give their kids the space, the opportunity, and the tools to develop into people who openly engage with their world and become fully and authentically themselves.

Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain

Explores ways in which understanding how the teenage brain functions can help parents make what is in fact an incredibly positive period of growth, change, and experimentation in their children’s lives less lonely and distressing on both sides of the generational divide.

The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents

A guide to help parents understand their teenagers’ intense and often fraught emotional lives—and how to support teens through this critical developmental stage.

Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls

Helps parents understand the difference between healthy and unhealthy stress and anxiety. Offers a comprehensive look at how to help adolescent girls manage naturally occurring tension, toxic stress, and anxiety.

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