Resources

Books

DBT, Mindfulness and BPD

Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder by Marsha M. Linehan, 1993, New Harbinger Publications, Oakland:CA

Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: a Complete Guide to Understanding and Coping When You’re Adolescent Has BPD by Blaise Aguirre, 2007, Fair Winds Press Beverly: MA

The Borderline Personality Disorder Suvival Guide by Alexander L. Chapman and Kim L. Gratz, 2007, New Harbinger Publications, Oakland:CA

Choosing to Live:  How to Defeat Suicide through Cognitive Therapy by Thomas E. Ellis, Psy.D., Cory F. Newman, Ph.D., 1996, New Harbinger Publications, Oakland:CA

Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life: How Dialectical Behavior Therapy Can Put You in Control by Scott E. Spradlin, 2003, New Harbinger Publications, Oakland:CA

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, & Distress Tolerance by Matthew McKay, Jeffrey C. Wood, and Jeffrey Brantley, 2007, New Harbinger Publications, Oakland:CA

Don’t Shoot the Dog — revised edition by Karen Pryor, 1999, Bantam Books, New York:NY

Families & Parenting

  • Reviving Ophelia – Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls; M. Pipher, PhD
  • The Drama of the Gifted Child; Alice Miller
  • Yes, your teen is driving you crazy. Loving your kid without losing your mind; Michael J. Bradley
  • Parenting from the inside out; Siegel and Hartzell
  • The Explosive Child; Ross W. Greene
  • Stop negotiating with your teen: Strategies for Parenting your angry, manipulative, moody or depressed adolescent; Janet Saddon Edgette
  • Don’t Shoot the Dog; Karen Pryor
  • The Good Divorce; Constance Arons

At-Risk Children & Teens

  • I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression; Terrence Real
  • The Scarred Soul: Understanding and Ending Self-Inflicted Violence;
    Alderman, T.
  • I Hate You – Don’t Leave Me; Kreisman J., Straus H.
  • Eating in the light of the moon; Anita Johnston (eating disorders)

Women

  • The Female Brain; Louann Brizendine, M.D.
  • The Beauty Myth; Naomi Wolf
  • Women who run with the wolves; Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • Our Bodies, Ourselves

Mindfulness

  • >Anger; Thich Naht Hanh
  • An Open Heart: Practicing compassion in everyday life; Dalai Lama
  • Destructive Emotions: How can we overcome them; Dalai Lama
  • The Miracle of Mindfulness;Thich Naht Hanh
  • The Light on Yoga; B. K. S. Iyengar

Depression & Trauma

  • On the Edge of Darkness: Conversations about Overcoming Depression; Cronkite, K.
  • Trauma and Recovery; Herman, J. L.
  • An Unquiet Mind; Jamison, Kay Redfield
  • Darkness Visible; William Styron
  • Healing through Dark Emotions; Miriam Greenspan
  • Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma; Peter A. Levine
  • Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide; Jamison, Kay Redfield
  • Touched by fire: Manic depressive illness and the artistic temperament; Jamison, Kay Redfield

Low Fee Counseling Centers

Crisis Support

  • Parental Stress, 510-893-5444, 800-829-8777.
  • Mobile Crisis, Berkeley, CA, 510-981-5254.
  • Sausal Creek, Stabilization Services, Oakland, CA, 510-437-2363.

Recovery

Eating Disorders

National Mental Health Resources

Community Resources

  • Circle of Care, Grief support for Children, Families, 510-531-7551.
  • Camp New Hope, Annual weekend camp held in Livermore, CAfor kids (ages 9-17) diagnosed with bipolar/mood disorder.
  • Low cost Psychiatry, East Bay, CA, Schuman Liles, 510-569-9334.