Recommended Reading

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