Books and Other Media

This resource list will be update as I finish reading or watching resources.  Some of these resources are informative but some are stories of real people.

Healing from Abuse

• Mending the Soul by Steven Tracy

Attachment and Adoption and Foster Care

• The Connected Child by Dr. Karyn Purvis
• The Connected Parent: Real-Life Strategies for Building Trust and Attachment by Lisa Qualls and Dr. Karyn Purvis
• The Attachment Theory Workbook: Powerful Tools to Promote Understanding, Increase Stability, and Build Lasting Relationships by Annie Chen
• Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families  by Jane Schooler, Betsy Keefer Smalley, and Timothy Callahan ***
• The Attachment Effect: Exploring the Powerful Ways Our Earliest Bond Shapes Our Relationships and Lives by Peter LovenheimA Secure Base: Parent Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development by John Bowlby
• Small: A True Story That I Sometimes Wish was Just a Novel by Eva Napier

Caregivers

• Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring For Self While Caring For Others by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
• I Am Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help! How to Help Someone with Mental Illness Accept Treatment by Xavier Amador

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

• Trying Differently Rather Than Harder: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders by Diane Malbin
• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder by Rosie Gowsell
• Understanding the Brain: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder by David Balog

Forgiveness

• Forgiving What you Can’t Forget. Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That’s Beautiful Again by Lysa TerKeurst ***
• The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World by Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu ***

Grief

• Lament for a Son by Nicholas Wolterstorff ***

Mindfulness

• How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness by Jan Chozen Bays

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

• Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach To Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole by Arielle Schwartz

Policy:

• American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed The Mental Illness Treatment System by E. Fuller Torrey

Psychosis

• A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
• Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

Shame

• I Thought it was Just Me (but it isn’t): Making the Journey from “What Will People Think?” to “I Am Enough.” by Brene Brown

Transgender Issues

• Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church and What the Bible has to Say by Dr. Preston Sprinkle  ***
• God Doesn’t Make Mistakes: Confessions of a Transgender Christian by Laurie Suzanne Scott ***
• God and the Transgender Debate by Andrew T. Walker

Trauma and Abuse

• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
• The Body Keeps the Score workbook
• Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families  by Jane Schooler, Betsy Keefer Smalley, and Timothy Callahan
• The Deepest Well: Healing the Long Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
• Forgiving What you Can’t Forget. Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That’s Beautiful Again by Lysa TerKeurst ***

Therapy

• Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb

Technical Texts

• Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications
• The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5)
• Collaborative Problem Solving: An Evidence Based Approach to Implementation and Practice by Alisha R. Pollatri and J. Stuart Ablon

Blogs:

• One Thankful Mom– Lisa Qualls- For foster and adoptive parents ***

Videos

• The Pathology of Addiction
• Everything You Think You Know About Addiction is Wrong
• How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across A Lifetime
• The Attachment Theory: How Childhood Affects Life
• How To ADHD

Articles

Charles Spurgeon Knew it Was Possible to be Faithful and Depressed

*** Faith Based