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Recommended Reading

Leadership in Public Safety

  • The Arch: A Framework for Leadership and Life by Jim Uhl

Self Esteem/Boundaries

  • Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melody Beattie
  • Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All The Time By Melody Beattie
  • Choices: Taking Control of Your Life and Making It Matter By Melody Beattie
  • Man’s Search for Meaning By Viktor Frankl, Ph.D.
  • When Bad Things Happen to Good People By Harold S. Kushner
  • Make your Tomorrow Better By Michael E. Cavanagh, Ph.D.
  • Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff By Richard Carlson, Ph.D.
  • Overcoming Life’s Disappointments By Harold S. Kushner
  • The Self-Esteem Workbook By Glenn R. Schiraldi, Ph.D.

Law Enforcement

  • I Love A Cop By Ellen Kirschman, Ph.D.
  • Copshock: Surviving Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) By Allen R. Kates
  • Practical Police Psychology By Laurence Miller, Ph.D.
  • Stress Management for Law Enforcement By Peter J. Pranzo and Rachela Pranzo
  • Emotional Survival For Law Enforcement By Kevin M. Gilmartin, Ph.D.
  • Police Psychology Into the 21st Century By Martin I. Kurke, Ellen M. Scrivner
  • Spiritual Survival for Law Enforcement By Cary A. Friedman
  • Suicide by Cop – Inducing Officers to Shoot: Practical Direction for Recognition, Resolution and Recovery By Vivian B. Lord
  • Suicide in Police Work: Exploring Potential Contributing Influences By John M. Violanti, Desta Fekedulegn, Luenda E. Charles, Michael E. Andrew, Tara A. Hartley, Anna Mnatsakanova and Cecil M. Burchfiel
  • Beyond the Badge By Charles Ferrara
  • Law Enforcement Families the Ultimate Backup By James T. Reese, Ph.D.
  • Law Enforcement Families/Issues and Answers – US Dept of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation By James T. Reese, Ph.D.; Ellen M. Scrivner; C J Lent
  • Police Suicide: Epidemic in Blue By John M. Vilanti, Ph.D.
  • Domestic Violence/U.S. Department of Justice By Rana Sampson
  • Bulletproof Spirit: The First Responder’s Essential Resource for Protecting and Healing Mind and Heart By Dan Willis
  • Counseling Cops: What Clinicians Need to Know Bby Ellen Kirschner, Mark Kamena, Joel Fay, Ellen Scrivner

Negotiation

  • Crisis Negotiations/Managing Critical Incidents and Hostage Situations in Law Enforcement and Corrections By McMains & Mullins
  • Hostage Cop By Captain Frank Bolz, Edward Hershey
  • Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In By Roger Fisher, William L. Ury and Bruce Patton
  • Dynamic Processes of Crisis Negotiation By Randall G. Rogan, Mitchell R. Hammer and Clinton R. Van Zandt
  • Psychological Aspects of Crisis Negotiation, Second Edition By Thomas Strentz

Firefighters

  • I Love A Firefighter By Ellen Kirschman, Ph.D.

Relationship

  • Seven Principles to Making Marriage Work By John M. Gottman
  • The Relationship Cure: A 5 Step Guide To Strengthening Your Marriage By John M. Gottman
  • The Language of Love By Gary Smalley & John Trent
  • His Needs – Her Needs By Willard F. Harley, Jr.
  • Emotional Infidelity: How to Affair Proof your Marriage By M. Gary Neuman
  • The Five Love Languages By Gary Chapman
  • Divorce Busting By Michelle Weiner-Davis
  • Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus By John Gray
  • You Just Don’t Understand! Men and Women in Conversation By Deborah Tannen

Inspirational

  • The Five People You Meet in Heaven By Mitch Albom
  • Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson By Mitch Albom
  • A Child Called “It” By Dave Pelzer
  • The Privilege of Youth By Dave Pelzer
  • A Man Named Dave By Dave Pelzer
  • Creating a Spiritual Relationship By Paul Ferrini
  • The Road Less Traveled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety By M. Scott Peck, M.D.
  • In Search of Stones By M. Scott Peck, M.D.

Grief and Death

  • On Death and Dying By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • When Life is Changed Forever: By the Death of Someone Near By Rick Taylor
  • A Year to Live By Stephen Levine
  • A Time To Grieve: Meditations for Healing After the Death of a Loved One By Carol Staudacher
  • The Bereaved Parent By Harriet Sarnoff Schiff
  • How to Survive the Loss of a Child By Catherine M. Sanders, Ph.D.

Parenting

  • Parent In Control By Gregory Bodenhamer

Domestic Violence

  • Too Good to Leave – Too Bad To Stay By Mira Kirshenbaum
  • It Could Happen to Anyone: Why Battered Women Stay By Alyce D. LaViolette & Ola W. Barnett
  • The Batterer: A Psychological Profile By Donald Dutton and Susan Golant

Women’s Issues

  • Women Who Hurt Themselves By Dusty Miller
  • The Courage To Heal By Ellen Bass
  • Victims No Longer By Mike Lew
  • Allies in Healing By Laura Davis
  • Surviving Cancer By Margie Levine

Men’s Issues

  • Victims No Longer By Mike Lew
  • The Wounded Male By Steven Farmer
  • Allies in Healing By Laura Davis
  • Leaping Upon The Mountains: Men Proclaiming Victory over Sexual Child Abuse By Mike Lew

GLBT Issues

  • Coming Out: An act of Love By Rob Eichberg, Ph.D.
  • Free Your Mind: The book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth and Their Allies By Ellen Bass & Kate Kaufman

Suicide

  • No Time To Say Goodbye By Carla Fine
  • How I Stayed Alive When My Brain was Trying to Kill Me By Susan Rose Blauner
  • Step Back from the Exit: 45 reasons to say NO to suicide By Jillayne Arena

Abortion

  • Forbidden Grief By Theresa Burke

Children

  • The Scared Child: Helping Kids Overcome Traumatic Events By Barbara Brooks, Ph.D. & Paula M. Siegal
  • When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death By Laurie Krasny Brown & Marc Brown
  • Dinosaurs Divorce: A Guide for Changing Families By Laurie Krasny Brown & Marc Brown
  • My Mom and Dad Are Getting a Divorce By Florence Bienenfeld
  • The Fall of Freddie the Leaf: A Story of Life for All Ages By Leo Buscaglia, Ph.D.
  • When Someone Very Special Dies: Children Can Learn to Cope with Grief By Marge Heegaard

Counselor Training

  • The Gift of Therapy: An open letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients By Irvin D. Yalom, M.D.
  • EMDR: The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma By Francine Shapirio, Margot S. Forrest
  • Family Crucible By Augustus Y. Napier, Carl A. Whitaker
  • The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder By Katharine A. Phillips, M.D.

Military

  • On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and Peace By Dave Grossman
  • On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society By Dave Grossman
  • Sharpening the Warrior’s Edge By Bruce K. Siddle
  • Warriors: On Living with Courage, Discipline, And Honor By Loren Christensen
  • Deadly Force Encounters By Alexis Artwohol
  • His Needs, Her Needs: Building an Affair-Proof Marriage By Willard F. Harley

Critical Incident Stress Management

  • Prehospital Behavioral Emergencies and Crisis Response By Dwight A. Polk, Jeffrey T. Mitchell
  • Emergency response to crisis: a crisis intervention guidebook By Jeffrey T. Mitchell, H. L. P. Resnik
  • Critical incident stress debriefing: an operations manual By Jeffrey T. Mitchell, George S. Everly
  • Group Crisis Support: Why It Works; When & How to Provide It By Jeffrey T. Mitchel
  • Critical Incident Stress Management: A New Era and Standard By George S. Everly, Jr., George S., Everly, Jeffrey T. Mitchell

Miscellaneous

  • The Gift of Fear By Gavin De Becker
  • Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am By John Powell, S.J., Ph.D.
  • Angry All the Time By Ron Potter-Efron, M.S.W

COVID-19 Resources

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