Biblio-Therapy Recommendations
So often people ask me what books I recommend for various common issues. I have partnered with amazon to offer links to the books that I most highly recommend to clients and to therapists. Biblio-Therapy has been found to be one of the best self-help strategies and also offers clients between-session opportunities to learn and practice self-help skills.
Here are my Favorite self-help books for clinicians and clients:
MY BOOKS FOR CLINICIANS
General
- 150 More Group Therapy Activities & TIPS
– Judith Belmont
- 127 More Amazing Tips and Tools for the Therapeutic Toolbox
– Judith Belmont
Stress Resiliency
- The Swiss Cheese Theory of Life!
– Judith Belmont and Lora Shor
- The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook
– Matthew McKay
- Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
– Steven C. Hayes and Spencer Smith
Mood
- The New Mood Therapy
– David Burns
- Thoughts and Feelings: Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life
– Matthew McKay PhD
- Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think
– Dennis Greenberger and Christine Padesky
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression, Second Edition
– Zindel V. Segal, J. Mark G. Williams, John D. Teasdale and Jon Kabat-Zinn
- A Guide to Rational Living
– Albert Ellis
- The Practicing Happiness Workbook
– Ruth Baer PhD, Mark Williams PhD
- The Feeling Good Handbook (Plume)
– David D. Burns
Self-Esteem
- Ten Days to Self Esteem
– David Burns
- When Do The Good Things Start?
– Abraham J. Twerski
- The Self-Esteem Workbook
– Glenn R. Schiraldi
Anger
- The Anger Control Workbook
– Matthew McKay and Peter Rogers
- When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within
– Matthew McKay PhD, Peter D. Rogers, Judith McKay
Anxiety
- The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
– Edmund Bourne
- When Panic Attacks
-David Burns
- From Panic To Power
– Lucinda Bassett
- How To Control Your Anxiety Before It Controls You
– Albert Ellis
- The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Anxiety: A Step-by-Step Program
– William J. Knauss, Jon Carlson
Relationships
- Messages: The Communication Skills Book
– Matthew McKay PhD, Martha Davis PhD, Patrick Fanning
- Couple Skills: Making Your Relationship Work
– Matthew McKay PhD, Patrick Fanning, Kim Pale
- Feeling Good Together: The Secret to Making Troubled Relationships Work
– David D. Burns M.D.
Co-Dependency
- Codependent No More Workbook
– Melody Beattie
- Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time
– Melody Beattie
- The Language of Letting Go: Hazelden Meditation Series
– Melody Beattie
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Second Edition: Basics and Beyond
– Judith S. Beck and Aaron T. Beck
- Cognitive Therapy Techniques: A Practitioner’s Guide
– Robert L. Leahy
- Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: A Therapist’s Guide
– Albert Ellis and Carol Mclaren
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Doing Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Practical Guide (Guides to Individualized Evidence-Based Treatment)
– Kelly Koerner, Marsha M. Linehan
- Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder
– Marsha M. Linehan
- DBT Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Guide to Dialectical Behavior Therapy
– Sheri Van Dijk MSW
- Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder
– Marsha Linehan
- The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Diary: Monitoring Your Emotional Regulation Day by Day
– Matthew McKay and Jeffrey Wood
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- The Big Book of ACT Metaphors: A Practitioner’s Guide to Experiential Exercises and Metaphors in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
– Jill A. Stoddard PhD, Niloofar Afari PhD and Steven C. Hayes PhD
- The Mindful Way Workbook: An 8-Week Program to Free Yourself from Depression and Emotional Distress
– John D. Teasdale PhD, J. Mark G. Williams DPhil, Zindel V. Segal PhD and Jon Kabat-Zinn PhD
- Mindfulness and Acceptance: Expanding the Cognitive-Behavioral Tradition
– Steven C. Hayes , Victoria M. Follette, Marsha M. Linehan
- Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
– Steven C. Hayes and Spencer Smith
- ACT Made Simple: An Easy-To-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
– Russ Harris , Steven C. Hayes PhD
- ACT on Life Not on Anger: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Guide to Problem Anger
– George H. Eifert, Matthew McKay, John P.
